STATEMENT BY SENATOR LODGE.
THE SHANTUNG QUESTION
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)
New York, Nov. 27
The "New York Times" Boston correspondent states that ~Sena,tor Lodge in a statement said: "The Senate will pass the Treaty with reservations. I have always advocated peace with Germany and the League of Nations, but desire a victorious, honourable peace, and a League which does not sacrifice America's constitution or sovereignty." The "New York Times" Paris correspondent states that it is understood that in the event of the United States Senate ratifying the Treaty with reservations which the Allies accept, China v/ill ask that she be allowed to sign the Treaty with a reservation witli reference to Shantung. . . Chinese representatives m Tans point out that China will never ratify the Treaty without a Shantung reservation.
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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15243, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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131STATEMENT BY SENATOR LODGE. Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15243, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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