TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD, President. Typed letter signed ("WmH Taft") to Moorfield Storey, Cincinnati, OH, 3 March 1919, 1 page, 4to, on personal imprinted stationery, integral blank. [With] Autograph free frank ("Wm H Taft C.J."), on printed envelope addressed to E.M. Tabor, n.d., no postmark, on printed Supreme Court envelope. An interesting letter in regard to the acrimonious public discussions then taking place over the ratification of the Charter of the proposed League of Nations, vigorously advocated by Woodrow Wilson (Taft's Democratic opponent in the 1912 presidential election: "I have noted your communication to the Herald on the subject of the League of Nations. I am glad to have your approval of the Covenant. No one claims that the Covenant is going to abolish war. It will, however, bring the nations into such relation to one another, and it does impose certain obligation on them of such a character that the opportunity for suppressing war through joint action of the nations will be vastly increase...." Taft, professor of law at Yale University since leaving the White House in 1913, had supported Wilson's efforts to keep the U.S. out of World War II and strongly urged U.S. participation in the League of Nations. (2)