15 NOVEMBER 1924, Page 3

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee

of the American Senate, died on Monday. Mr. Lodge certainly played a great part in the affairs of the world during the last five was. Many Americans think that had it not been for his eetermined and persistent opposition, President Wilson would have been able to carry the Peace Treaty through the Senate. In that case the United States would now be in the League of Nations, and the world would be indeed a different place from what it is. Perhaps, how- ever, Mr. Lodge was an effect, not a cause, and America would not in any case have accepted the Wilson scheme. At any rate, much of the responsibility for the great refusal must, for good or ill, rest upon Mr. Lodge.

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