Conflicting opinions have been expressed in America with regard to
the draft scheme for the League. Mr. Taft said that it surpassed his hopes, and that it ought to be accepted by the Senate. On the other hand, some Senators asserted that the scheme involves the abrogation of the Monroe Doctrine. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, criticized the draft as clumsy and diffuse, and said that it " bristles with difficulties, perhaps impossibilities, particularly for nations such as Great Britain and the United States." He took objection to President Wilson's suggestion that the body of Delegates need not be drawn from the Governments, as "a mischievous notion that the free peoples of the world are inadequately represented by their Governments, but must in some way be represented by volunteer groups of spokesmen."
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