PEACE TREATY

Wairarapa Age, 20 November 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY

ATTITUDE OF AMERICA

A SUGGESTED COMPROMISE,

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association., Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.

The New York Times' Washington correspondent states that President Wilson's determination to reject the Treaty if the Senate adopts it with Senator Lodge's reservations seems to leave a compromise as the only other alternafive. Senator Hitchcock has announced that he is organising the minority forces to reject tho ratification resolution.

There are 45 Democratic of which some will probably bo cast witb the Republicans, but there are sufficient remaining forces to defeat ratification.

The basis of the possible compromiso has not yet been formulated. Tficre is an unconfirmed rumour that President Wilson might possibly accept tho Treaty if the reservation requiring the assent of three other Powers were omitted.

The Democrats, before they succeeded in passing any compromise programme, would bo compelled to obtain the support of more than onethird of the Republican Senators.

Senator Hitchcock has intimated that : President Wilson is unalterably opposed to the reservations requiring the assent of other Powers to the reservations, because Britain and France would obpect.

Senator Hitchcock said that the Democrats, after defeating the Treaty with Senator Lodge's reservation, would attempt to gain the ratification with Senator Hitchcock's xnild reservations, but, in the event of the latter being defeated, they will then seek a compromise. He added that President Wilson would profer to have the Treaty defeated in the Senate rather than resume the responsibility of rejecting it himself.