AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

,lly E lectric Telegraph—Cumigiu.i iYllt WILSON’S CAMPAIGN. WASHINGTON, May 28. President Wilson intends to make the national honour, the crux of his campaign in the fight for the League of Nations. He will proposed to resubmit to the country the Peace Treaty, as drafted, with certain suggestions for interpretative resolutions. AMERICA AND IRELAND. WASHINGTON, May 28. The United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has favourably reported on a resolution sympathising with Ireland’s .aspirations for a Government of her own choice. I Action by the House will be sought next week, PRESIDENT’S VETO. • WASHINGTON, May 28. The House of Represenfatives failed by 29 votes to secure the necessary majority to over-ride the President’s veto on the Knox Peace resolution. ' Congress has refused to over-ride the veto of the Knox resolution. President Wilson by vetoing the resolution declared that the Treaty embodied important things omitted by the resolution. In rejecting the Treaty the United States declared in effect that she wished to draw apart and pursue only hoi' own objects and interests. Such a Peace with’ Germany as the resolution proposed is or ought to be mceivable, as it is inconsistent with the dignity of the United States and with the rights and liberties of the citizens and the very fundamentals of civilisation.