THE PEACE TREATY.

Wairarapa Age, 24 March 1920, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

Turned Down by America.

THE ALTERNATIVE.

(By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Received Last Night, 8 o 'clock. WASHINGTON, March 23.

Senator Lodge has issued the following statement: —"The Peace Treaty is gone. It has been rejected by the Senate and sent back to the President, and if he chooses to return it, it will have to go through the same process as before. If President Wilson desires to make it an issue in the Presidential' campaign, the Republicans are willing to meet the issue." Senator Hitchcock states: —"The result was what I expected. The Peace Treaty is now before tho President, and if, there is to be any further action he must take the initiative."

AMERICA'S ISOLATED POSITION.

AND TURKISH SETTLEMENT.

Received Last Night, 11.20 o'clock. WASHINGTON, March 20.

It is pointed out that even if tlie Senate on Iklonday adopts Senator Knox's resolution declaring the war between Germany. and the United States at an end, President Wilson may ignore the resolution on the ground that the Constitution empowers the President only to proclaim the cessation of hostilities. There is a feeling that the United States has been isolated by the Senate's rejection of the Treaty. The United States will probably now withdraw from the Turkish settlement. Nobody seems to know, what action President Wilson will take. The United States has no diplomatic consular officers in Germany, Hungary, or Austria, and is thus unable to conduct any diplomatic or business relations with these countries. Negotiations for the new Treaty will take a long time. Mfeanwhile American trade with the Central Empires is suffering.