PACIFIC TREATY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14625, 27 March 1922, Page 6

PACIFIC TREATY.

[RATIFIED BY AMERICA, WASHINGTON, Friday. - The final vote on the Pacific Treaty was delayed by 15 reservations introduced at the last moment. Fifty-five Republicans and .12 Democrats voted for the Treaty, four Republicans and 23 Democrats against. Following on the ratification, Senator Lodge urged the. Senate to take an immediate vote on the supplemental treaty eliminating Japan’s Homo land from the scope of the former. He consented to postponement till to-morrow. —Aue. and N.Z. Cable Assn. A LENGTHY MEMORANDUM. -g LONDON, Friday. A lengthy memorandum entitled “Some considerations for the Peace Conference before they finally draft their terms,” which Mr. Lloyd George circulated amongst members of the conference in March, 19115, has been issued as a White Paper. It states:— “It is comparatively easy to patch up a peace which might last 30 years, but' it is difficult to draw up a peace which will not provoke ,a fresh struggle. History has demonstrated that a peace hailed by a victorious nation as a triumph of diplomatic skill and statesmanship has proved in the' long run to ,be short-sighted and charged with danger to the victor. You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her armaments to a mere police force and her navy to a fifth-rate Power, but if she feels she has been unjustly treated she will eventually find means of extracting retribution from the conquerors.

“Arrogance and injustice displayed in the of triumph .will never be forgotten nor forgiven. We cannot both cripple Germany and make her pay. We must offer terms which a responsible German Government can expect to carry out. The greatest danger L see is that Germany may throw in her lot with tlis Bolsheyjks, It is idle to impose a permanent limitation on the. armaments of Germany unless we are prepared to impose limitation on oursolves. * * Signo£ Kitti, the bx-Itaiian Premier, ig h-a book “Peaeeless Europe,” applauded the memorandum, but complained that Mr. Lloyd George signed a treaty violating the principle which he set out.—Aus. and N.Z. Gable Assn.