Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-19
BRITISH ARE UPSET
: BY LEAGUE CLASH
Unable to Comprehend Sig
= nificance of President.
Senate Dispute.
9BADLY BUNGLED AFFAIR"
BY GORDON STILEs.
EperfaI Cable to The star md the Chi
caEo Daily News. Copyright. 1919.

caEo Daily News. Copyright. 1919.
LONDON, June 1.-THE delays in
Paris. coupled with the reports of the
senate doings In Washington. have
thrown the British mind into a state
of chaos which had not been reached
during the war, The Americans here
Also are unable to understand the
signifioance of what Is happening.
President Wilson. Premier Lloyd
George, Premier Clemenceau and the
Emitted States Senate are abused In
turn, but nobody Is quite sure that he
Is damning the right man even while
he is doing It.
The divergence of opinion expressed
In the newspaper comments In itself
Indicates how impossible II is to fore
Zee the outcome. Mixed groups of
British and Americans ask each other
such questions as these:
Some Questions Asked.
Does the Senate action mean that
Washington will not ratify the peace
treaty even If 1t Is signed in Parish"
rs 1t possible that the United States
government will ratify the treaty
with the exception of the league Of
nations clauses?"
IF Washington refuses to ratify will
IT undo all the work of the confer
enceT'
IF American refuses to ratify, does
IT mean a separate peace between
The United States and Germany"
: IF so. how will that affect the
Anglo-American and French rela-
fionsr'
BADLY Bungled Affair."
: There is a unanimous feeling that
the whole affair has been badly
bungled. 1t is generally attributed
10 the incorporation in the peace
treaty of the league stipulation. For
this reason certain sections Of the
Everythig. because the league was
President Wilson's pet scheme But
They find 1t hard to reconcile their
ideas with the hostile attitude of Con-
gress toward the President. Their
logical conclusion is that Congress
therefore that whatever he does will
he disapproved by Washington. Thus
their reasoning leads them nowhere
and they are asking questions such
as those referred to.
More Popular in Britain.
While the league is talked of as an
American invention by some and con-
demned for that reason alone, 1t is
apparent that 1t is more popular
here than IL appears to be in Amer
lea. 1t is regarded as the only sure
means of insuring American support
in the event of further European dis
turbances. and elements here concern
ed in international trade certainly
favor it.
. Politicians. at least those who are
not in Paris; are concerned over the
effect 1t will have on, the German
decision. They consider that the pos
sibility of a separate peace with
America will be powerful factor
in the German agitation against sign
ing. From what I know of the Ger
man mind I believe that 1t Is true,
as members Of the present German
government told me in April that
separate peace with the United States,
was to be desired above all else. =
"Never Mind the Slurs."
{, Little attention should be paid to
the slurs hurled at the Washington
sdoings by a certain section of the
British press. Most of the editorials
containing violent expressions are
.gIaring examples of profound ig-
as to conditions either in Germany
or America. Their outlook embraces
the English view only. and they are
not taken very seriously by the think
ers here. For instance. one high class
paper held up Liebknecht. Luxem-
who seemed capable of organizing
real democracy in Germany" The
whole mix-up Is certainly having a
disastrous effect on international har-
.mony. and II there is one thing the
great mass of the British people de-
sire It is close and friendly under.
standing between this country and
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