UNITED STATES AND PEACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18234, 2 May 1921, Page 5

UNITED STATES AND PEACE

THE KNOX RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE SENATE

HARDING’S VOLTE FACE

Pre»s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, WASHINGTON, April 30.

(Received May 1, at 11.5 p.m.) The Kncx resolution, which was finally amended to include peace with Hungary and Austria, besides Germany, was passed by the Senate by 49 votes to 23, after seven hours’ strenuous debate, in which the Democrats made an impassioned appeal to the Republicans not to cast American pride down before Germany. Every vote against the resolution was cast by the’ Democrats.

Senator Lodge’s declaration that the treaty would follow shortly caused considerable speculation. There is a feeling that, since Senator Lodge unquestionably represents President Harding’s policy, the President intends to reverse himself, having stated in former utterances that there need be no separate peace. In the course of Ills speech Senator Lodge declared: “The Allies made peace in a treaty which they had not asked our leave to enter into we have the same right to make peace for ourselves, as we shall do in a treaty which will probably follow the Knox resolution. It would take 72 amendments to separate the Versailles Treaty from the League of Nations Covenant, and then they would hive nothing left but a shell.”

While the resolution must be passed b.y the House of Representatives, and signed by President Harding in order to become effective, these steps are assured, the overwhelmingly Republican and traditionally accustomed to approve the Senate’s foreign relations measures.—A. and N.Z. Cable.