THE PEACE TREATY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 25 March 1920, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. New York, March 20. ‘ ‘The defeat of the Treaty is a colossal crime against the country and the world,” said Mr W J Bryan. He added that the action was the more disgraceful because its rejection was reached by a union of the Democrats and the .Irreconciiables whom the Democrats previously denounced. Congress should declare the war at an end. _ . Those who believe that President Wilson maV run again argue' that it is logical for him to come forward now on a Treaty ratification platform, with a plea that the Treaty is greater than politics, or the third term tradition. #

NEWSPAPER • COMMENT. ' New York, March 20. The New York World states that the commanding prestige the United States won in the war has been frittered away. The New York Times states that Senator Lodge might have secured ratification with reservations for every reasonable purpose reservations not obviously intended as dagger thrusts. He has been beaten at his own despicable deadly game, and upon him the responsibility falls. The Tribune says the defeat is a tragedy whose poignancy is intensified by the sordiduess of the fipal scene. The country beholds its President wrecking a great under taking for no better reason than that he could not unconstitutionally have his own way. The Boston Post asks: What next ? Something must be done to end a grotesque situation. The Chicago Journal says Senator Lodge and the Treaty killers are responsible partly for the revolutionary plot which has just failed in Germany, and if Bolshevism follows he will be responsible.