AMERICA'S ISOLATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17652, 13 December 1920, Page 5

AMERICA'S ISOLATION.

COUNTING THE COST.

SEPARATE PEACE URGED.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

(Reed. 11.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 11

The Washington correspondent of the United Press of America, states that the world position of the United States is beginning to agitate legislators. A growing disposition is evident that a speedy resumption of peace with the Central Powers is imperative. Many Republicans intend to urge Mr. VV. G. Harding, the President-elect, to initiate separate peace negotiations and commercial treaties with Germany and Austria as soon as he is inaugurated. A member of the Foreign Relations Committee' of the Senate declared that Europe proposes to monopolise the exGerman cables, to the exclusion of the United States, to bar Americans from the natural coal, oil and mineral resources of the vforld, and to discriminate against American business men; also, that some foreign countries are attempting to break the effort of the United States to run a successful mercantile marine. Mr."Harding has started conferences re* garding a plan for an association of nations in place of the League of Nations. His first discussion was with Mr. Charles E. Hughes, who was Republican nominee for the Presidency in 1916.