PEACE TREATY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 7

PEACE TREATY.

* AMERICA AND EUROPE. M. VIVIANI'S MISSION. m« fliMe-PreM-AMOciation— CooTT<r>.i.) SOTinlioo and N.Z. Cablo Associating NEW YORK, March 23. jl. Yiviani has arrived, and was offi- ->■ ci»Uy welcomed. r A message from New York on March eti said: The Paris correspondent of - fko "Now York Times" loams authorih tatively that the French Government : M lortly send M. Vmani as a ' il envoy to the United. State, to Xad before the new Administration ; Sd the American people France's case - ; : ffe will point out the hardships which ■ TsfeDarate peace between Germany and r .; .{he United States will inflict on France : which does not believe that the United L c ta tc9 would enter into such an ar|ft£ai»ement if she really understood the ■ tSadvantagea it would mean to the ■ Allies. France believes that America 'can mako reservations to the Treaty of Vereailles which will protect her sover- , aignty and at the same time permit •! her to' co-operate with the Allies. M. •i Viviani will not sneak of debt cancellation, but will point out to President • Harding that France intends to make Germany fulfil the terms of the Treaty, which Europe cannot throw overboard. | It i 9 a law of Europe which any nation dealing with Europe cannot disregard. M Viviani will remain a week in Washington, and a week in New York. The Pans correspondent of the New York Tribune," writing on January " 22nd, interpreted thorse passages of M. J Briand's speech dealing with Franco- ; American relatione as forecasting an ;*' afler by France to the United States ■ of an alliance against Japan. The "Tribune," commenting editorially on its correspondent' 9 despatch says that. ; the French statesman ought not to ; think America is concerned enough S about her differences wijh Japan to I comider that an alliance would counI ter-balance the British-Japanese allii ince. It adds: "We do not fear Japan. | Neither do we fear the possibility of I British support for Japan. British de- '■ pendencies fronting on the Pacific are I with os in the issues on which ire clash 'i with Japan. The present Britishl Japanese alliance, •» far as it may be 'i directed against us, does not represent I the united policy of the British £m- ' Warning its readers that "there have been increasing.signs of late that \ getting tired of being treated ia a 'Jefferson Brick' style by the United States," the "New York Times" sari that the constant American assumption that Europe is bound to do whatever America finally makes up her mind to order her to do at last rasps European nerves. The "Times" continues: "A" eoemopolitan Senator from Massachusetts began the proud scorning of foreigners. "Why pay any attention.'' demanded Senator Lodge, "to Europer-i desires about the League or IfationeP ' She will have to take -whatever terms Aire impose or b$ wrecked." Since then, a kind of loftily superior talk has flowed in streams." # • ' Continuing in the seme .vein the I 'Times'' refers to those Republicans I who have expatiated, on the thrill of *', pride which will warm the hearts, of s all Americans when they see the repre- :? sentatives of Eurbpe, hat in hand, at 5 Washington, but it advises the Presil dent-elect and bis advisers to understand that they must persuade-and not coerce Europe, and even if Americans feel that they are the greatest people on earth, they should remember that they are-expected to act like gentle- \ men in international -affairs, and not like "back-woods yawpers." In a mesfsage to the people of the South, made übttd as he passed through Atlanta to lorida to spend his holiday, Mr Harding wrote: :Vl;,belieye- most cordially., in a prosperius America. First, I do not see boW we' «ah retain our home markets, trp<ta which American good f or- ■: tune must be founded; and at the same time maintain American standards of production and American standards of ' living, unless we make other* peoples with lower standards pay for the privi-' .' lego of trading in American markets. Surg » the best market in the world, because we are the largest in consump- ! ; ,lion',and most', able to buy."] » j