The sun., 1919-06-22
FRENCH LIKELY
TO FOLLOW U. S.
Deputies Probably Will Ratify
Treaty if American Senate
Accepts Pact.
DEBATE WILL BE BITTER
One Faction Terms 1t Too Sc.
we're and the Other
Too Mild.
DEBATE WILL BE BITTEE
Special Cable Despatch 10 The suH.

Copkf1Ghf. 1913; all rights reserved.
PARIS, June 21.-The fight against
the League pf Nations in the Ameri-
can Senate has directed attention here
to the possibility of the ratification Of
the treaty by the French Parliament
1t is no secret that both the Chamber
Of Deputies and the French Senate are
opposed violently to the present docu-
ment, even in its revised form.
In tho Chamber. it is true. the op-
position is divided, one faction pro-
testing against the mildness of the
treaty and the insufficiency Of
Frances material compensation; the
other-comprising nearly the whole
Left wing-decrying the severity of
the treaty. seeing therein the germs
OF a new world war. After feeling
out the sentiment of the leading Depu-
ties THE Sun is able to state that
the Chamber Of Deputies will ratify
the treaty, but only after bitter de-
bates and protestations.
This ratification il not entirely certain.
| in view of the influence that may be
exerted by the action Of other Parlia-
ments OF the allied countries on the
French legislators. Some of the Deputies
declared to THE Sun that If the Ameri-
can Senate refused to rat!fy the treaty,
and did so, among other reasons. be-
| cause 1t was too mild and let of the
| Germans too easily. the French Parlia-
,, ment might be expected to do likew ise.
This view. of course. represents the opin-
ion OF only one OF the numerous ele-
ments in the Chamber Of Deputies which
Is protesting.
, In spite OF the scant news concerning
the progress of the night in the American
Senate and OF the deliberate supp. ession
here of details regarding the true senti-
ment in the United States toward the
treaty French legislators are taking a
keen interest in the proceedings In Con-
gress. looking forward with no little
anxiety to the outcome of the contro-
yersy
There seems to be a general awaken
| ing here to the fact. as one Deputy
put It, that the conference eventually
| will have to take cognizance OF Piesi-
| dent Wilson's constituency, which up 10
the present time has been so wilfuliy
neglected"
Pertinax. one OF the most influential
newspaper writers in Europe, in an edi-
torial article in the Echo de Parts to-
day says:
THE fate Of the Society OF Nations
| does not depend only on the Germans
and the Russians. It depends also on
the attitude to be taken by the Repub-
| lican majority in the United States
Senate in the very near future, on the
immediate acts of Italy and finally on
the neutral States
Many different motives may actUa:e
the large number OF Senators who op-
pose the Society of Nations and from IN.
formation received here one recognize.
! that for one reason or another failure t.
ratify the treaty is possible. Italy agreed
to the answer to Germany and up To
| the present has maintained the lines
which unite the Allies. but Italy is dis
ccntented. and to-day Orlando is men,
aced by critics. the natural effect OF
the affront offered to him by Presiden,
Wilson some weeks ago"
| PertinaX cites also the fact that the
neutral countries refused to participate
in the blockade OF Germany. He points
out that they explained their attitude
toward Germany by declara tons made al
the beginning Of the war, and these dec.
larations remain in force until the peace
treaty has been signed. He concludes
THE Society OF Nations and its for
mulas have been used to cover all the
pleas OF Europe. Its future Is uncer-
tain"