Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-07
Changes From Original Draft
Exceed Expectations of the
French Who Demanded 40
SOIute Protection,
LANSING OPPOSED
PACT TO THE LAST
Secretary of State Claims
That Covenant is Contrary
to Constitution of j, S, and
Bad Political Move,
by Herbert Bayard Swopc.
Copyright 1919, by the Press Publish
inc 90
(The New York WorldD
Especial Gable Dispatch.)


Paris, July 6. - The American
French-Bri defensive treaty, which
was signed recently and is being car
ried to Washington by President Will
son personally shows distinctive
changes from the outline heretofore
given, one change making it far more
powerful and the other affecting its
application.
The announcement of the measure
as first printed in the journal and
later given disingenuouS denial by
those speaking for the president who
feared the news might unfaVorably
affect the league of nations chances
said the treaty was to become opera
tive in the event of aggressive action
by Germany against France
The actual covenant, which Arthur
]. Balfour acting chief of the British
commission, calls a tripartite alliance
for definse, defines such an aggres-
sive action as being a violation of any
of the military clauses of the peace
treaty, which are recited fully, and
accentuate the point that failure to
comply with any of them shall be re-
garded as a violation of all and, ipso
France.
Exceeds All EXpcctions.
This provision goes further than any
one here expected, and makes good the
claim of Premier Clemenceau's sup
porters that while seemingly making
concessions to the theory of the league
of nations, he had actually scored a
great victory in holding up his conten-
tion that balance of power was the
surest means Of preserving peace.
The second point of diffRentation
is that the tripartite treaty is not to
become effective if either the Ameri-
can senate or the British parliament
fails to ratify it, Both must accept the
undertaking If the agreement is to
live.
In case Washington rejects the
plan, which is not wholly unlikely and,
at least, is more probable than that
Great Britain will, it does not follow
that France will be left alone. On
the contrary, in that event Great Bri-
tain will bind herself more closely to
France than she does under the terms
of the present project and will revise
the dual alliance that existed before
the war when Russia also was a con-
comitant to the pledge
Wilson to Fight Hard.
President Wilson proposes to fight
hard for this treaty, although it was
said, in recent official statement,
that he would merely lay the doCu-
ment before the senate without recon-
mendatiOn. France protested against
such a course, and insisted that NOR
al obligation rests upon Mr.. Wilson
to push it with all fervor. He has
come around to this view, and will
give his best effort to gaining sane
ton for the undertaking.
He expects most opposition will
arise from those who think the plan
implies weakness in the league of ma
tions, and he is preparing a campaign
with the thought of successfully re-
futing this argument.
Another point he will have to face
is the revival of the prejudice against
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