agree that this nation does not} want peace at any price and any foreigners who think otherwise wil dreadfully disillusioned, but 1 agree with the implications that we are prepared to embark upon exfcursions' of collective security collective sanctions, or that the American verdict _upon entangling alliances is any different to-day than fin 1920," the Senator said, He reiterated his opposition, how-lever, to the Ludlow War Referendum Bill Enactment of the War Referendum:
Bill would "be the first step in the destruction of a Republican form of Government," Senator Key Pittman, [Democrat of Nevada, Chairman of the [Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said to-day.
Senator Pittman pointed out that! tess than half the" people express themselves in any' referendum and those would be influenced by "violent misrepresentations and propaganda."
Mr. Louis Ludlow, Democrat of Indiana, author of "the bill, has selected 29 prominent civic leaders as directors of a War Referendum Com mittee, headed by Moj-Gen. William Rivers, retired, who disagreed wit the Administration's contention tha the plan is dangerous and impractijeable—United Press.
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