AMERICA AND GERMANY.
PEACE RESOLUTION CARRIED.
(By Qable—Press Association—'Copyright.) ■ (Australian and N.JS. Cable Association.) ' (Received May Ist, '6.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 29. Senator Hitchcock, in a' speech, said the state of war between the United States and Germany ended in November, 1918, when Mr "Wilson declared it ended, or at least when Congress, in March, 1921, adopted a resolution repealing tlho war statutes. Ho declared that the alien property provisions of the resolution .would not bind Germany in. the absence of a formal treaty. . . Th© Knox resolution, which.,, was finally amended to .include pdace with Hungary and Austria besides Germany, was passed by the Senate .by 49 votes to 28, after seven hours- of strenuous debate, in which the Democrats mado an impassioned appeal to the Republicans not to cast American pride down before Germany. Every vote against the resolution was. cast' by Democrats, but three Democrats Voted*with the. Republicans for the measure. Senator Lodge's declaration that a treaty would follow shortly' caused considerable speculation'. There is a fuelling, since Senator Lodge unquestionably represents Mr Harding's policy, that the- President intends to reverse his ideas, - having stated in former utterances that there need be no separate peace. In the couretf of his speech, Senator Lodge declared that the Allies had made peace in a treaty which they (had not asked America's leave to enter into. "We have the same right," he said, "to make peace for oiirselves, as we shall do in a treaty which will probably follow the Knox resolution. It> would take seventy-two amendments to Eeparate the Versailles Treaty and the League Covenant,, and then we would have nothing left but the shell." While the resolution must be paseed by the' House of Representatives, and signed bv Mr Harding in order to become effective, these steps are assured, the House being overwhelmingly Republican, and traditionally accustomed to approve the Senate's foreign measures. _____
AMERICA AND GERMANY.
Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17134, 2 May 1921, Page 7
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