Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-03-27
NEWS REVIEW Of
CURRENT EVENTS
Peace Delegates Completing the
League Of Nations Plan and
Treaty Together.
OPPOSING SENATORS firm
Japan Modiffes Her Race Equality
Amendment-RoIshe Lose in
North and Win in Ukraine
Stirring Up More Trouble
in Other Lands.
BY EDWARD w. PlckARD.

.
Seemingly convinced that, by some
means not vet revealed, the opposition
of large part Of the American senate
can be overcome, the peace delegates
in Paris went ahead last week with
the work of welding the treaty and the
league of nations plan. President
4 Wilson declared there was no inten-
tion Of handling the two matters sep
arately, and in this he was supported
by others of the leaders. 1t was admit
ted that the league plan would have
to be amended in various particulars,
and that the American delegates had
made up their minds to accept GER
tain limited number of changes Per-
haps it was believed these alterations,
which probably will not be at all radi-
cal, would satisfy the objecting sena-
tors. Their attitude and language do
not tend to Justify that belief.
Some Of the correspondents in Paris
fear that insistence on joining the
covenant of the league with the peace
treaty will delay the latter. Others,
equally well informed, assert that the
difficulties will be speedily removed,
intimating that the principles of the
league, in SO far as they have been
generally accepted, gill be Incorporate
ed in the treaty and that differences
of opinion regarding specific parts of
the covenant will be recognized and
discussion of them left to later date.
Thus, they think, President Wilson
and the supporters Of his plan will be
satisfied and the opposition in Ameri-
ca and elsewhere placated.
The specific changes demanded by
the opposing senators have not been
made public except in a scattering
way, but a courier is on his way to
Paris bearing lengthy statement for
the French and British press prepared
by Senator Poindexter The senators
intend to escape any possible cable
censorship by sending all their COM
munications by courier. Meanwhile
they are defending their stand before
the American public in speeches and
debates, the most interesting of the
latter being between Senator Lodge
and President Lowell of Harvard uni.
yersity. Lodge said he favored a
league of nations, but not the cove.
nant as presented. He declared the
whole treaty should be redrafted, but
did not believe that would be done in
Paris. Senator Reed violently at.
tackled the. league plan in speech be-
fore the Missouri legislature, where.
upon fifty Democratic members of that
body formally demanded his resigna-
tion. That is a fair sample of the in.
tolerance displayed by the strongest
partisans of both sides in the dispute
Several rather startling suggestions
have been made by the senators who
are fighting the Wilson plan. Lenroot
| of Wisconsin proposes that the senate
adopt resolution declaring the wal
with Germany terminated and then
proceed to formulate a peace treaty
! Calder of New York wishes congress
as soon as it is convened, to instruct
the American delegates how they
should proceed.
Japan's delegates having evinced de
termination to try to introduce into
the league covenant an article giving
the yellow races equal rights of immi
grafton with the Caucasians, President
Wilson personally undertook to stave
on this threatened complication. He
told viscount Matsui the idea was i'm
possible, and Matsui agreed to drop II
for the present. However, the Jap
anese delegation. did propose ar
amendment providing that the con
tracting parties to the covenant shall
agree to grant equal and just treat