WASHINGTON TREATIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 343, 10 March 1922, Page 5

WASHINGTON TREATIES.

DISCUSSION IN THE SENATE

PACIFIC PACT SUPPORTED

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received March 10, 8 a.in. WASHINGTON, March 8. Senator Lodge, in a speech in the Senate, urged the ratification of the Pacific Pact. Ho said acceptance only meant the ending of the AngloJapanese Alliance, and (lie making possible of a naval holiday. The defeat of the treaty would mean the failure of the Anns Conference. He inferred that the United States could not ratify the Naval Limitation Treaty if the Parific Pact is not approved, because the Auglo-.Japanese Alliance would eonfront the reduced American navy. The Pacific Treaty substituted the assurance of peace for the arrangements and calculations of war. Simultaneously, it kept the. United States clear of all alliances of any sort, which were, in their very nature, war-breeders. The Pacific Treaty ended the Anglo- ; Japanese Alliance, which was a most dangerous element in America's relations with the Far East and caused glowing suspicion, not only in the United Slates hut also in Canada. Senators should remember that the defeat of the Pacific Treaty would endanger the Naval Limitations Treaty, the failure of which would shock the world. “ll will he a hitter disappointment to our people,” he declared, “if we continue to preach suspicion and haired of other nations. If we decline to deal with them, nothing can ever he done. The United States never has per -l (ed failure or defeat to he writ- 1 is-., in her history and she will not ; permit it now.” | Senator Lodge was heckled by several Democrats, Senators Reed and Cross • questioning him regarding the diver- ' gvnee of view between President Harding and the negotiators on the treaty’s construction in reference to the incln- j sion of Japan’s mainland in its pro- i teetive provisions. i Senator Lodge admitted that the Treaty at first did appear to include 1 the Japanese mainland, though Japan 1 did not want it. President Harding informed the J Senate that the Lansing-lshii agree- ;i ment was completely superseded by the ,■ Nine-Power Chinese Treaty. The President explained that the Lansing-lshii u agreement was merely an executive tie- 11 duration, which was supplanted by the 11 formal treaty. It is variously rumoured that Dr. Wilson, wishing the Pacific Treaty to he rejected, is eo-operating with Senator Borah, instead of with the Democratic senators. Lobby gossip says that Mr Tumulty. Dr. Wilson’s former secretary, is acting as go-between, keeping Senator Borah informed of Dr. Wilson’s attitude, and furnishing the senator with material for opposing the treaty. The Democrats insist that they have had no word from Dr. Wilson regarding the stand to he taken on the treaty.—A. and N.Z. cable. V KW YORK, March 8. The New York Times’s Washington “ correspondent understands that the main purpose ol President Hardings trip to Florida, whither he is now on mute, is to carry out his declared intention not in any wise Ip interfere with or influence the Senate’s action regarding the Four-Power Treaty.—A. and N.Z. cable. \