VERSAILLES TREATY

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 6

VERSAILLES TREATY

AMERICA’S NON-PARTICIPATION. BITTER RECRIMINATION. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 4, 11.6 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 3. There was another sharp skirmish in the Senate to-day, when the American Foreign Relations Committee had a heated discussion. Senator W. H. King said if the United States had signed the Treaty of Versailles she would have been in a position to-day to help in the European crisis.

Senator W. E. Borah took issue, declaring that the League of Nations was helpless to interfere in the Ruhr situation.

Senator T. H. Caraway attacked Senator Borah’s stand. Senator G. W. Norris sided with Senator Kins. Senator Caraway praised England for ratifying the Treaty, and thus saving Europe from another war. The debate became general, the Democrats favouring the Versailles Treaty, and the Republicans attacking it. Senator King ended with the declaration that he intended to press his resolution for further argument by tho Arms Limitations Conference. BRITISH LABOUR DEMANDS. A NEW CONFERENCE. Australian and NZ. Cable Association LONDON, February 2. Three hundred branches of the Independent Labour Party in England are organising public meetings at the week-end, advocating the repudiation of the Versailles Peace Treaty, the withdrawal of Allied troops from, all occupied areas; and the summoning of a world’s conference to establish lasting democratic peaoe in Europe and the Near East.