THE PEACE TREATY.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 September 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

IMPORTANT’ AMERICAN RESERVATIONS. ”“ RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL DE; MANDED. V BLOCKING DOMINIONS FROM . VOTING. Received 10.10 a.m. ' PKRIS, Sept. lo_ Delegates from Jugo-Slavia and Roumania have not signed the Austrian Peace pending instruction_s from their Governments. V VVASI-lINGTON, Sept. 10. Later State Department advices from Paris says aht the Bulgarian Treaty has not yet been signed. Reporting on. the Peace Treaty the Senate Foreign Relations Committee appended forty-five amendments and four rser_va€ions.. ' The majority report of the comniittee points out that the amendings and reservations are guided by a single purpose, that is, to safeguard American independ ence and right of sovereignty. The reservations ‘include the right of withdrawal from the League, refusal to recognise obligations under Article 10 except Congress so decides, reserving to the Unitedstates the right to decide what constitute .donlestic questions; also an absolute reservation that Monroeism should be left to the United ‘States alone. The amendments include a declaration that British Dominions should not vote, and in favour of_the restoration of Shantung to China. "Ste majority report, referring to the fear that other nations may not accept the amended covenant, says: “That one thing certainly cannot happen Other nations musttake the United States upon her own terms, for without the United States the League would be wrecked and all Allied gains accruing -from victorious peace be imperilled.” -