The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-07-12
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TREATY AND LEAGUE
BELIEF is 1T WILL DO THIS
HOWEVER, WITH SERIES OF
RESERVATIONS FOR FUTURE.
ALLIES WOULD NOT OBJECT
England and France Want United
States in the League of Nations as
Next Best Thing to an Actual Al
lance.
By EDWARD 3. CLARK.


counted keen observers of Legislative
situations seem IT, believe today that
the peace treaty and the league
covenant will he sanctioned by the
United States senate in the form thai
they are written, but that there will
be series of written reservations
passed by the senator's which will con-
Germ themselves with the attitude OF
the United States in the future to-
wards certain provisions of the docu-
ment or documents.
OF course ii cannot yet be definitely
determined whether this view of the
situation is correct one, but 1t is
a fact that men who are opposed TO
the covenant as ii stands and men
who are in favor of 1t agree in effect
that the outcome is To be as above
written.
What the reservations will be In
their entirety cannot be told, but 1t Is
known that in part they will concern
themselves with immigration ques-
lions, with the Monroe doctrine, and
probably with some things connected
with rights of withdrawal from the
league and with suggestions concern
ing the armed part which the United
States is expected to bear in case OF
embrOgliOs.
| have talked with men who are
I'm touch with the foreign feeling on
such an outcome as that outlined
above. 1t seems that the British and
the French are perfectly willing to al
low the United States to make its
reservations. Reservations or no
reservations, the covenant will go in
to effect and the future, so far as the
senate's action is concerned. will be
allowed to take care of itself, the be-
lief of the foreigners apparently be-
ing that nothing which the senate
shall insist upon in separate docu
ment will affect the smoothness of the
running of the worlds affairs.
Bunau varilIa Favors League.
Bunau Varilla, the great French
engineer who directed the work on
the Isthmus of Panama when the
French company had it in charge, Ii
in Washington. This Frenchman lost
leg at Souilly, not far from Yer
dun, about two years ago. He Wa
the engineer in charge of providing
the water supply for the French ar
mics and it was some job. A Boch'
airplane dropped bomb near the
generals headquarters and he wa:
manned, but Notwithstanding thu
number of his years he recovered, Later
to return to the front and still late
to journey to the United States.
Bunau Varilla is in favor of ,
League of Nations. So it is under
| stood are most other Frenchmen o
high official standing. This also i
true of the British of like estate. On
| learns one thing, however, in Wash
ingtOn through direct and indirec
touch with visiting foreigners. and tn
facts may just as well be faced. 1t i
not to be supposed that the Frencl
and British are in love with tn
League of Nations so much becaus
they believe II will solve all the wa
problems of the universe. or that
will prevent for all time territorial
and racial chickering's. They want tn
League of Nations mainly because tn
United States will be a party to II
and France and England, barring tn
possibility of an actual alliance wit
the United States, feel that the leagu
Is the next best thing.
Hun Army Was Whipped.
An American correspondent, Franz
III. Simonds, cabling from Paris. says
German public men are making des
perate efforts. with certain success Il
some directions, to give the impression
that the German surrender last Nc
vember was due solely to the princ
Piles of the fourteen points"
This simply means that the German
officials are trying to make their pee
pie believe their army and their nav
were undefeated last November, an
that when surrender came ii was nc
forced but voluntary, because OF dc
sire TO end the war in behalf Of a
peoples.
American army officers, some c
whom are in Washington. and score
Of them still in France, know that thi
German contention is a lie. that tn
German authorities know that it is
lie. and that the people of German
ought to be made to know that 1t is
lie.
One of the worst features of this a
tempt on the part Of the German hig
command is to make it appear ths
their armies were not in bad wa
last November is that thousands {
Americans seem TO think the sam
thing. They are just as badly II
formed on the subject as are man
of the German people.
What All Americans Should Know.
II ought to do some good to let a
Americans know that while German
could have fought for while lOnge
she could have fought nothing but
defensive battle on line that woul
have crumbled quickly and laid Ope
her country to the invading forces.
Hint on Gas Globes.