America, the Nations and the League

nNE of the marvels to me has been the absolute inerrancy with V which so many men in America were able immediately upon the receipt of the first draft for the proposed League of Nations to announce authoritatively what it would and would not do to the republic.Having spent three and thirty of the best years of my life in the practice of the law, during which constitutional cases not infre- quently arose, I ascertained that a century and a quarter after its adoption by the several states, the American Constitution presented many propositions about which strong arguments could be made on both sides.For six years, as presiding officer of the United States Senate, I have heard this same Constitution lauded and magnified, attacked and defended.Propositions prove to be clearly constitutional and equally unconstitutional until, in the larger, swifter movements of these epoch-making times, I have almost reached the conclusion that what one believes is constitutional and what one disbelieves is unconstitutional

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