PEACE TREATY

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY

MPRESIDE2}[X .WILSON'S CAMPAIGN. sNO REFORM OR SETTLED PROGRESS UNLESS TREATY RATIFIED, By Telegraph.—Press Assd.*"-Copjtfght. Received Sept. 14, 6.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 12. iny w Y°rk Times' correspondent at Courdaleine, Idaho, said that President Wilson, who spoke in a huge circus tent, pictured the world again aflame with war unless the Peace Treaty was accepted. It was > inconceivable that men could favor the complete destruction of the treaty. There could be no reform or settled order in the world for a generation unless the treaty was accepted. President Wilson continued: "Every man who ioveß justice should stand for 'he unqualified acceptance of the treaty. If you wish to live in a chaotic world, encourage those who are opposing the treaty and the League Covenant." He said he would not raise any serioUs objections to the adoption of the reservations or interpretations of the Treaty Covenant by the Senate in a resolution separate from the resolution of ratification, though his own opinion was that such action was unnecessary. The audience listened attentively, though little interest in the treaty Question has been shown in Idaho.—Aus.«N.Z. Cable Assn.

At Spoken, Idaho, President Wilson, replying to Senators who objected to the British Dominions having separate votes in the League of Nations, said that no danger to the United States on that score existed, because the decision of the League Council must be unanimous, and thus the United States, by one vote, could veto any of the council's decisions. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Received Sept. 14; 11.5 p.m. Ncw'York, Sept. 13. At Taooma, Washington State, President Wilson asked the crowd whether they wanted to abandon all that had been achieved in Paris. The crowd shouted "No!"

The President continued that guarantees of world liberty had been given, but they must be safeguarded. President Wilson, denouncing Bolshevism, saidi "I am the enemy of the rulership of any minority, however constituted." The League of Nations was an almost complete insurance against war. Even if it was only ten per cent, insurance it would still be worth having If the League bad existed Germany would never have begun the war.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

Mr. Bullitt testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee' that he and Mr. Lansing hid a conference in Pari*'list May, .in which Mr. Lansing condemned parts of the Peace Treaty as "thoroughly bad," particularly those deal' ing with Shantung and the League of Nations. According to Mr. Bullitt, Mr. Laming said: "I consider that the League of Nations is at present useless. The Powers hare arranged the world to suit themselves, and the league is able to do nothing to alter the unjustness of the treaty except by the unanimous consent of the members of the league represent* ing_the Great Powers, who will not give | their consent to changes in the interests of the weaker peoples. If the United States Senate and the people understood the real meaning of the treaty, it would unquestionably be defeated. Mr. Bullitt asserted that Generals Bliss and White also objected to numerous provisions of the treaty. Mr. Lansing declined to comment upon Mr. Bullitt's testimony. ANTI-WILSON CAMPAIGN 1 , SENATOR'S MISCHIEVOUS REMARKS Received Sept. 14, 6.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 13. At St. Louis, Missouri, Senator John* son, who is engaged upon as antiWilson anti-League of Nations crusade, said that if the peace treaty was adopted Britain and Japan would control the United States' foreign policy. President Wilson was unable to explain why, under the League, Britain was given six votes and the United States only one. Mr. Johnson added: "We don't have to become the partners of burglars simply | because we cannot prevent' bmnlary."— Aus, N.Z. Cable Assoc.