PEACE TREATY

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3929, 9 February 1920, Page 2

PEACE TREATY

AND AMERICAN RESERVATIONS

HOPE AGAIN DISPELLED

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Washington.. February 7

Hope that the Treaty would speedily bo ratified, since it will shortly again lie brought up on the iloor of tlw Senate, has again been dispelled. Senator Hitchcock has stated that lie does not think President Wilson has changed his attitude regarding reservations, desoite Viscount Grey's letter, and if the President doe.s not accept Senator Lodge's reservations, and the Republicans do not make a measurable modification in connection with the reservations, there cannot bo a in the Treaty situation.

LLOYD GEORGE'S ATTITUDE New Yotik, February 7

Interviewed by the New York Times' London correspondent, Lloyd George said: I might have hopes as to what the United States might see her way to do. but 1 could not presume to advise her about her business. The United States came into the war when she. was most needed: her coming was like an avalanche. President Wilson, the whole administration, and every branch of the Americans co-operated everywhere and worked effectively with Europe against Germany. Finally the American people put every ounce of their might into the war on issues offering no direct or immediate menace to their interests. I can only say I trust them and their sound iudjnuont." WJLSON STANDS FIRM.

Washington, February 7. •President Wilson, in a letter read to the Democratic Senators at a secret conference, said he would accept Senator Hitchcock's reservations, but could not accept nn.v reservations, that would cause the United States to i eject her international obligations under Article 10 of the League, of Nations Covenant-. The letter reaffirm* Wilson's stand against any but interpretative reservations . IS THERE A WAY OUT? Thirty Democratic Senatore held a caucus at which it was unanimously decided to do everything possible to facilitate the calling up o f the Treaty <m the iloor of the Senate on February 'J. Senator Hitchcock said the Demo- < rats would also support the recommitment of the Treaty to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.