AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 277, 25 November 1919, Page 5

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

(Reuters .Telegrams.} ((Reeeive'd Nov. 24. 11.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 23. /Most of the newspapers express the hope that an agreement in regard to i ratification will be reached.

/file conservative Tribune declares that America desires that the Treaty "Toe ratified :.arid that the League of Nations be joined, in a way,- how>.ever, that will reserve liberty of national action. It pleads for moderation. ■ .

-TheiTimes considers'that the action of the Senate is leading the country to a shameful position, and it predicts ultimate ratification and joining of the League. The World, which is pro-Wilson, expresses the opinion that agreement is still possible, but if ratification .is unobtainable then the Senate ■wsll.J;become a menace to the welfare of mankind and the United States will -^staiid {discredited.

;The Herald blames President Wilson : for; the : impasse.