THE PEACE TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 June 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY

■A LABOR PROTEST

AGAINST SECRET NEGOTIATIONS

AMERICA DECLINES A MANDATE

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LONDON, May 21. Thirty-three Labor leaders have signed a, manifesto protesting against the Peace Treaty being drawn up secretly by the Ministers of a few great Powers. The Treaty violated the Goveicment's pledges, particularly Mr Lloyd George's pledges to Labor on January 5. It was further urged that the treaty does not recognise the change following the German revolution, resulting in the establishment of social democracy. The treaty contains' the germs of "new conflicts, and creates j •oaMlitkms of unreel and injustice which must make the League of Nations, if it survives, merely an instrument of Imperialism.

PARIS, May 21. The newspaper l'Humanite s ays that America, ait the eleventh hour, has declined the (mandate for Constantinople.