PRESIDENT AND PEACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17484, 31 May 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENT AND PEACE.

HIS ' VETO SUSTAiNED/ APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. FOR LEAGUE AND TREATY. • Rj Telegraph— Association— Copyright. '■it;-' ' v . (Received 6.30 p.m.} %W'£kA NX-Renter. •WASHINGTON, May 28. - . " The Blouse, of Representatives failed by ' . 29 votes to secure the necessary majority '," to override the President's veto on the |lf|'Kriox peace resolution. Mr. Wilson, in vetoing tho resolution, declared that the treaty embodied important things omitted by the resolution. In feinting the treaty tho United States de- ■ "eland that in effc-ct she wished to draw apart and pursue only her own objects and interests. Such a peace with Germany as ■ th« resolution proposed was, or ought to •■: ; ; be, inconceivable, as it -was inconsistent) vith the dignity of the United States and >■''•• ©with tho rights and liberties of her citi'.:,'.:i«ij and with tio very fundamentals, of -y'-'civilisation. $ ' Mr. Wilson intends to make tho honour of the nation tho crux of his campaign in the fight for the licagfio of Nations. Ho ■ ,;- proposes to submit again the Versailles v Treaty as originally drafted, with certain suggestions for interpretative reservations. : :-;g 8 trill 50 to the country with an appeal ■■■'v'-i to its honour, and the cause will be fought , on\ tl bafcis upon which peace was ; .;•• bought about.