REJECTED TREATY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 154, 25 March 1920, Page 5

REJECTED TREATY

CAUSTIC CRITICISM IN UNITED

STATES

"COLOSSAL CRIME AGAINST

WCfRLD"

RESPONSIBILITY FOR GERMAN REYOLT

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

New York, March 20.

"The defeat of the Treaty is a colossal crime against the country and tho world." said Mr. AY. J. Bryan, •in a speech. "The action was the more disgraceful because the rejection of the Treaty was reached by a union of the Democrats and the irreconcilablcs whom Democrats had previous])' denounced. Congress should declare the war at an ond. Those who believe that President Wilson may run again for the Presidency areud that it would be logical for him to come forward now on a Treaty ratification platform, with the plea that the Treaty is greater than politics or thirdterm traditions."

The New York "World" states that tho commanding prestige which the United States, won'in the war has been frittered awav. !

The New York ''Times" says Senator Lodge might have ratification of the Treaty with reservations for every reasonable purpose. The reservations were not obviously intended as dagger thrusts. Ho has boon beaten at his own despicable and deadly game. Upon him the responsibility falls.

The "Tribune" says the defeat is a tragedy, tho poignancy ol which is intensified by the sordhlness of tho final scene. The country beholds its President wrecking a great undertaking for no better rpnson than that he could not unconstitutionally have his way.

The Boston "Post" asks: "What next? Something must be done to end the gi'otesoue situation."

The "Chicago Journal" says: "Senator Lodeo and the Treaty-killers are responsible partiv for the revolutionary plot which has just failed in Germany. If Bolshevism follows, he will be responsible."—Eeutcr.

New York, March 20. Press comment on the Treaty defeat is generally bitter throughout the nation. The 'newspapers arc not agreed as to culrtybility, tho matter being reviewed according to their partisan feelings.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SEPARATE~PEACE MOTION EXPECTED TO BE VETOED BY PRESIDENT. Washington, March 23. President Wilson, it is understood, intends to veto Senator Knox's resolution, declaring peaco with Germany. It. is the. Presidential intention to. withhold the Treaty until the Congressional elcc-tioiis.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. THE GERHAnTnDEHNITY AMERICAN PROTESTS AGAINST SEIZURE OF PROPERTY. Washington, March 19. Mr. A. Polk, Under-Secretary of State, has announced that the United States has strongly remonstrated against, the rulings of the Allied' Reparation Commission, that under the Peace Treaty the sale of certain German property in neutral countries can be forced if necessary to satisfy' tho initial payment of tho German indemnity. A further protest is being prepared, because such a construction of' the Treaty is contrary to the official interpretation exchanged between Germany and the Allies.—Router.