The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
Wilson Informed Objec4
tiOns Will Be Raised If !
Clause Is Offered. :.
HAS MADE TWO DRAFTS
His Friends Assert He Is
Still Hopeful of Getting
One Accepted. q
JAPAN IS CHIEF WORRY
Situation Complicated BY
Omitting Her Through the
Two Councils Of Four.
JAPAN IS CHIEF WORRY
ny LAURENCE HILLS.
sfd6 Correspondent Of The suS.


StdT Correspondent Of The SuS
Copyright, 1919; all rights reserred
PARIS, March 30. - The Monros
Doctrine amendment to the League Of
Nations covenant, about which there
has been much mystery during the
week. has become the subject Of bar.
gaining. it was learned to-day. AZ
the last meeting of the league COM
mittee President Wilson did not offer
the amendment, as he previously had
announced he would do, because at
the last moment he was apprised in.
formally that objection would be
raised to it. Since then the President
has not mentioned the amendment
and the only explanation offered Is
this mysterious objection.
The idea that President Wilson
never really intended to make fight
for the Monroe Doctrine is repudlated
by some of his friends here, who in
sisted to-day that he was still hopeful
of getting it admitted in some form
to the League of Nations covenant
The President as late rs Wednes-
day had two drafts of proposed
changes, one mentioning the Monroe
Doctrine specifically and justifying II
on the ground that it would help to
preserve the peace of the world. while
the other was couched in more gen.
| eral terms, not mentioning the Mon
roe Doctrine by name
Japanese Complication Intimatsd.
a.. The former was favored by most
of the commission. who had become
convinced that the covenant would
have hard shedding without specific
mention of the doctrine, and it is evil
dent that this was the amendment
that was the subject of the diplo-
matte incident which upset the Presi-
dents plans at the last minute.
Efforts are being made in Ameri-
can circles to deny that the incident
was connected in any way with the
japanese amendment for racial equal
| ity, but many diplomats here refused
to believe there is no connection, and
the two subjects linked together are
the cause of much speculation.
In Japanese circles naturally there
is the same denial, although II IL
stated that Japan still is insisting on
the acceptance OF the principle of
racial equality and that this still Is
under Informal negotiation. The
japanese express the hope that 1t
will be settled before the next meet
| ing Of the committee.
oscar =. straus Hopeful.
Some Of the Presidents friends
profess to believe that the chance
now for a Monroe Doctrine amend
ment is rather slim. On the other
hand. Oscar S. Straus. who Is the
'liaison," or connecting link between
President Wilson and eXPresidenE
Taft. said to-day that he thought the
President would succeed, and while
he himself did not believe such an
amendment was necessary. yet the
situation in America evidently de-
Hughes OF Australia In this ccnnec-
tion Is attracting renewed attention
to the matter.
The President now is devoting all
hiS nj ip1 Il, ,n l'Anppil %
The new change in the working plan
creating n Little Council of -Four,
composed of foreign secretaries and
Ministers, attracted instant attention
as emphasizing the apparent elimina.
tion of Japan. Whether Japan ac-
quieSced in this or not the Japanese
correspondents here are greatly con
Cerned and are sending by cable long
expostulatory letters to their papers
in Toxic. one explanation offered IS
that Japan has no Premier here for
the big council and no Foreign Min
| lister for the little council.
secrecy Causes Criticism.
The plan of the Council of Four
! is to meet as a special committee,
taking up one day reparation. an
other day Bolsheyism, and so on. but
as to what progress is being made
under the new scheme no informa-
tion Is forthcoming. The French
newspapers already are taking alarm,
fearing that under the present regime
! OF secrecy President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George are whiting
| down the peace terms, dreading that
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