PEACE TREATY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15976, 19 November 1919, Page 3

PEACE TREATY.

AMERICAN RESERVATIONS Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, November 15. The Senate, after accepting Senator Lodge’s motion to closure tbe debate, adopted in rapid succession the following reservations; The United States reserves the right to determine what questions relating to boundaries, and declines to submit to the League matters pertaining to the Monroe Doctrine, and reserves full liberty of action in regard to Shantung; Congress to provide by law the appointment of United States representatives in the Assembly and Council of the League, and the Senate must concur in any appointment to the various Treaty Commissions; Congressional approval is needed to the Reparations Commission’s regulations of German and American commerce; and tie” United States; to contribute to the League of Nations’ expenses only as approved by Congress. SENATORS’ INTENTIONS. NEW YORK, November 15. New York Times’ Washington correspondent states that as a result of the Senate’s adoption of the Republicans’ reservations. Senator Hitchcock said that the Democrats would vote down the Ratification resolution. It is understood that he plans bringing up milder reservations following the defeat of the Treaty with Republican reservations. ' Senator Lodge says that in the event of this being attempted,- the Republicans will block in. CONCERN IN LONDON AND PARIS. LONDON, November 16. The decision of the American Senate in adopting reservations practically nullifying the Treaty- of Peace, have produced a situation which is viewed in London and Paris with much concern. The illness of President Wilson at this critical period increases the difficulty of forecasting any solution. One uncertain factor is whether the American’people approve or disapprove of the Senate’s undoing the whole labour of the President at the Peace Conference. A GRAVE SITUATION. LONDON, November 17. Lord Robert Cecil said it would be difficult to exaggerate the gravity of the international situation in Europe at the present time. The reservations of the United States Senate, which had been provisionally accepted, were so extensive as almost to amount to the United States’ repudiation of the Covenant, which also meant a repudiation of the Peace Treaty. The position was of the gravest character, but whatever happened, the League must continue, even though the United States decided not to participate.