28 DECEMBER 1918, Page 2

Mr. Lodge also criticized the President's proposals for the removal

of economic barriers, for the reduction of armaments, and for a League of Nations. He remarked that Mr. Wilson's economic doctrine would prevent America maintaining her reciprocity Treaty with Cuba. "Personally I believe that we should have the right to discriminate against Germany or against any other nation." As regards disarmament, Mr. Lodge said "There is no reason for bringing up at this moment a general question of this sort, which cannot now be intelligently determined with the world in a broken and torn condition." Mr. Lodge acknowledged all the attractive and beneficent aspects of a League of Nations, but pleaded on the whole for something as simple and practical as possible.