SUPREME COUNCIL
AMERICA WITHDRAWS. Received Jan. 12, 5.5 p.m. PARIS Jan. 11. The American ambassador informed M. Leygues that the United States had decided not to be further represented on the Ambassadors' Council, also to refrain from taking part in the next Supreme Council. America will continue to participate in the Repaartions Committee. The Matin declares that the decision has been taken owing to the French demand that Germany should be compelled to fulfil her pledges. M. Leygues, in the course of an interview, expressed his intention to secure execution of the Versailles Treaty. France would exact what was her due quietly, with calm, unshakeable firmness, and justice to herself. He realised that before the world could arise from the cinders of the great fire all the civilisd nations must collaborate, and France and Germany also. MERELY A MATTER OF FORM. Received Jan. 12, 7.40 p.m. PARIS, Jan. 11. A semi-official Note points out that the American decision to quit the Supreme Council is merely formal, as America has not participated since 1919 except in an observer’s capacity. Formal action is necessary in view of President Wilson's retirement, though German propagandists in America are suggesting America’s sympathies are with Germany.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18075, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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