1 DECEMBER 1928, Page 2

Last Saturday fourteen Senators visited President Coolidge in order to

sound him about the programme for the coming session of Congress. They gathered that he earnestly desires that the United States should adhere to the World Court before his Presidency comes to an end in March. It was also gathered that he hopes with almost equal anxiety for the ratification of the Kellogg Pact and the passing of the cruiser programme. Unfor- tunately the Senate has shown no signs of willingness to withdraw its reservations about the World Court. Prob- ably Mr. Coolidge believes it to be possible to persuade other nations to modify their objections to the decisions of the Senate.