U.S. AND PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1920, Page 5

U.S. AND PEACE.

SEEKING A COMPROMISE. . "LITTLE HOPE OF SUCCESS." By Ttlegraijli.—Press Assn.—Copyrlcht, New York, Jan. 29. The Washington correspondent of the Xcw York Times states that Senator G, 11. Hitchcock (Leader of the Democrats}, fearing the termination of the Treaty compromise conference between the parties, lias announced that he will move to take up the Treaty oa the floor of the Senate if the conferences are definitely discontinued. Senator 11. C. Lodge (Leader of the Republicans) has announced that ha will in no circumstances permit any changes in his reservation with reference to Article. 10 and the Monroe Doctrine. There seems little hope of securing success by compromise, although Senator .Hitchcock declares that an agreement on Article 10 might be reached if the conference accepts the plan by which Congress will decide when the United States must take up arms to defend imperilled nations.—-Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assn.

[The real danger of America's action on the Peace Treaty and League of Nations does, says the Spectator, not concern herself alone. It consists in. the fact that other nations, great and small, in whom ambition is beginning to awaken, may make the American reservations an excuse for abandoning tha League. In all probability the American Senators do not fully realise the enormous dynamic force which America now exercises in the European world. It is not too much to say that, if the Senate had passed the Treaty without reservation, no European State would have dared to consider the possibility of breaking away. With America apparently only hanging loose on the League, all the Machiavellis, petty and great, of Europe are inclined to say, "Why should we tie our hands if America won't tie hers? Let ii<t be free as she is." If that evil counsel was to prevail, Europe would indeed be in deadly peril.]