LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 150, 21 March 1921, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

REVIVAL OF AMERICAN INTEREST

MR. HARDING DISCUSSES PLANS

COVENANT AMENDMENTS REQUIRED

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. March 19, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, March 18.

Tt is understood that Mr. Harding discussed with the Foreign Relations Committee plans to revive American interest in the League of Nations. No agreement, of course, has been reached yet.

It is authoritatively stated that more than Article Ten must bo eliminated from the League of Nations’ covenant before tho Harding Administration will consider making America a party to the League. The statement is made in reply to reports from Paris that M. Viviani is coming to the United States to suggest that American should become a member of the League on tho basis of the elimination of Article Ten.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Article Ten sets out: —The members of the league undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the League. In case of any such aggression, or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression, the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obliC'ltion shall be fulfilled.]

IMPORTANT NEGOTIATIONS M. VIVIANI’S MISSION TO WASHINGTON. New York, March 18.

Ths "New York Times” states editorially that it does not require miraculous detective ability to perceive that important negotiations are afoot between France and the United States. M. Viviani's mission must be something more them a visit of courtesy; nor are the visible activities of the French Ambassador to be passed off as simply routine; and reports are also that the British Embassy is not filled with diplomats asleep. The repressntafives of Japan are ready to pick up the broken threads of their international business with the State Department. "We may next hear tho Italians stirring. It begins to look, all told, as if we might presently see in Washington a kind of adjourned mooting of the Paris Peace Conference.” —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

[The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" reported recently: "I learn authoritatively that the French Government will shortly send M. Viviani as a special envoy to the United States to plead France's case before the mew Administration and tho American people. M. Viviani will point out the hardships which a separate peace between Germany and the United States would inflict upon France. France does not believe that the United States would enter such pm arrangement if she really understood the disadvantages it would mean to tho Allies. France 'believe? that America, can make reservations to the Treaty which will protect her sovereignty and at the same time’ permit her to co-operate with tho Allies. M. Viviani will not speak of tho cancellation of the I' rcnch debt, but he will point out to Mr. Harding that France intends to make Germany fulfil the Treaty, which Europe cannot, throw overboard —it is a law of Europe which anv nation dealing with Europe cannot disregard. M. Viviani will remain in Washington for a week and m New York for a similar period.”]

UNITED STATES AND THE ALLIES GERMANS AND SINN FEINERS TRY TO CAUSE FRICTION. (Rec. March 20, 5.5 p.m A New York, March 19. Extraordinary scenes of enthusiasm were witnessed at a patriotic rally organised by the American Veterans’ Association as a reply to a recent/ mass meeting held by German sympathisers, ostensibly to protest against the use of black troops in the Rhine area, but at which .Sinn Feiners joined the Germans in reviling Mr. Wilson, American institutions, and the Allies, and from which American soldiers were ejected by the police for protesting against the speeches. Tonight fourteen thousand people packed the Madison Square Garden and thousands were turned away. The speakers were continually cheered when they declared that the true American was bitterly resentful of attempts by hyphenated:? to cauAe /friction between the United States and the Allies. General Pershing said America must insist that outlawnations bo held to full responsibility and pay the penalty for their misdeeds. He declared; "We object to foreign-born persons, whether German or Irish, attempting to decide America’s questions for foreign reasons.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RELATIONS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA DISAPPOINTMENT BROUGHT BY YEARS OF PEACE, London, March 18. Mr. Storey (Premier of New South Wales) attended the American Club luncheon. Lord Robert Ceci), speaking on the relations between Britain and America, said that after the armistice he thought a new chapter would be opened between the two nations. He thought we were heading a great peace movement in which international co-operation would supersede colnpetition. Unhappily two years of peace had brought greater disappointment than the previous four years of war. Anglo-American delations, were strained by tho questions of Ireland, the Navy, oil and cables, all of which were adjustable by conversations. Mr. Storey said Australia loved both Britain and America. Although international tension had been increased by tho competitive warship building activities of England, America, and Japan, he did not believe that ever there would be war between America and England. —Aub.-N.Z. Cable Assn.