U.S. AND PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1920, Page 5

U.S. AND PEACE.

A NEW COMPROMISE. HOPE OF RATIFICATION. By Telegraph.-—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. Washington, March 11. Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, has started a new Treaty compromise movement. He says he believes that at least thirty Democrats would support a rcf.san.able compromise on Article Ten, whether President Wilson gives his consent or not. Meanwhile, although various attempts at a compromise have made no progress, both Democrats and Republicans arc struggling to reach a common ground, and hope the Treaty may be ratified before the Senate session ends.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

COMPROMISE ON ARTICLE TEN. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. Washington, March 13. Senator H. C. Lodge (Leader of the Republicans) has presented to the Senate a compromise on Article Ten.—Reuter Service.

j PLAIN TALK BY CANADA. STATUS OP THE UNITED STATES. New York, March 11. The Ottawa correspondent, of the New York Times reports that the president of tho Privy Council, Mr. Rowell, speaking in the House of Commons, said that if the United States Senate should adopt tho reservations now before it and the President accepted them, the question of the entrance of the United Stales into the League of Nations might depend on the action of Canada, and under those serious conditions they could not possibly give the necessarv consent, because they were neither prepared to cut the tie binding them to the Mother Country nor to revert to the old colonial relationship. Mr. Rowell ndded that they all recognised the importance of the United States coming into the. League. No country was more interested than Canada that the United States should join, and they would be the last people in the world to put any obstacle in 'the way of Iter entry, but if the United States should finally fay: ''We will come in on condition that you practical1\ wet out or have your status impaired," we can only reply, "We, as a selfrespecting people, cannot accede to your terms.'—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ATTITUDE' OP THE PRESIDENT. STRONGLY CRITICISED IN FRANCE. Paris, March 11. The Paris press angrily comments on President Wilson's letter to Senator Hitchcock, and asks whether the President can recover and how long will America be guided in the gravest moment of her history by a sort of King Lear.

The Echo de Paris publishes an important letter, dated May 27, 1919. from Mr. Hovne, American Commissioner on the Rhine, to President Wilson, alluding to the alleged Imperialistic designs of France. President Wilson submitted Mr, Hoy 11.''s letter to the Supreme Council, and the Convention with Germany of June 28 regarding the Rhine was the result.

In view of such proof of France's moderation, the paper says it does not become President Wilson to make charges against France, especially as France renounced her idea of keeping the Rhine bridgeheads indefinitely under military occupation in response to President Wilson's and Mr. Llovd George's promise to make secure. iW France her eastern frontier. As President Wilson is now unable to fulfil his pledge he is the last man entitled to speak as he did yesterday—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn.