RELATIONS WITH LEAGUE AND RUSSIA DISCUSSED

When asked why he advocated "sitting down at a table with the Russians" and yet did not support the League of Nations, Senator William E. Borah, in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, answered that there was a radical difference between the two proposals.

"By exchanging ambassadors and resuming diplomatic relation", he explained, "we should help to bring Russia back into the family of nations. In this way we could reestablish trade connections and could increase the friendly feeling between the two countries. But in the League of Nations, every question of any importance that has arisen has been settled by one of the five great nations, and the little fellows have never had a show. An ambassador in a foreign country is in intimate daily contact with the important men in the government, while a representative at a tribunal or conference is just as far away from the leaders in the other countries as he is from those in his own.

"Since the League of Nations as it is now constituted is only an armed alliance to enforce the Versailles Treaty, why would our membership in it be in the least comparable to our recognition of the Russian Government!"