FOUR-POWER PACT

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 7

FOUR-POWER PACT

AMERICAN RESERVATIONS

ADVOCATES GAINING MUCH

SUPPORT

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.

(|)I1II> KIM ASSOCIATION,—COrTMiIT.I

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZXALANH CAILI ASS«CIATI»N.) • NEW YORK, 4th March.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that the advocates of reservations to the FourPower Treaty "are gaining so much support that it eeems likely the Treaty will not be ratified by 'the Senate unless with reservations. It is understood that Senator Lodge had a conference with President Harding to-day, ahd< informed the President that ratification depends on ' reservations. '' ' Senators "Brandegee, MacCormack, and Moses ha-ve declared that they will oppose the Treaty without reservations. The Opposition declares that this will ensure the defeat of the Treaty, since thirty other Senators have already declared their opposition to the Treaty without reservations, and .thirty-three is the exact number required to defeat ratification. The result of this situation is expressions of opinion that active opposition to the reservations by the Administration will cease. TOKIO, 3rd March. (High, officials are of opinion that the Four3?ower Treaty will be acceptable to Japan with the reservations under consideration by the United States Senate.