PEACE TREATY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 23 August 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY

JLBSURD VIEWS OF AN AMERICAN SENATOR. i

FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE'S ATTITUDE. WILL RFCEIVE DEPUTATIONS OF EUROPEAN NATIONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT WASHINGON, Aug. 21. Senator McCormick, in a .speech in the Senate, denounced British policy in! Persia. Britain aud Fiance, he said,! 'were two Imperialistic powers. Everywhere in Asia there was i-ehellion and; ••sedition, but under the League of Nations America's soldiers must suppress "those movements towards freedom. Tho purpose cf the League w ras to guarantee ths world's frontiers in the inter•ests of French and British autocracies. Tho Senate Foreign Relations Committee- decided to receive deputations of Egyptians, Irish, Greeks, and other •Central European peoples before acting on the Peace Treaty.