New Britain herald., 1919-08-27
MANHA THE TREATY.

# Committee is still busy mauling and Housing the text of the Peace Treaty End the League of Nations plan in #n effort to make it's defeat seem the E lore certain. In addition to the
 #irtual repeal of the Shantung clause, @u bject of American participation in s@he several allied commissions for the @overnance of international matters central body. The Fal! M mendment, as adopted by the com
 Mlittee, removes our interference in International matters, leaving, how @ver, our representation on the repar-
 @tions commission The blanket vote @n the amendments was easy to take; M simply struck out the words and
 A Associated" where they occurred in #he' phrase "principal allied and as- 1#ociated pOwers," leaving the "prin- Wipal allied powers to settle diff
 Hulties in future policies.
 x Thus it is hoped to keep the United a#tates out of further European trou- M les by allowing it no word in the @ rst discussions that follow any diff
 #ulty that may arise. The effect of B#he amendments is the same as that #f the Shantung amendment. If E Mdopted, the League of Nations is @orthless SC far as we are concerned, &s our representatives will have been Removed from the equation.
 M The new amendments, however, we Believe, would be more acceptable to European powers than the Shantung Issue. We do not think that they are #htensely concerned whether we enter Mnto discussions that might affect Aheir policy. They have committed Themselves to the Shantung allot- Nhent; therefore, they will see it Through, whether we join them in so Moing or not. Though they might MEish the aid of the United States in Mny great conflict that may in the Muture arise, we cannot believe that @hcy care particularly whether We Mf1e only nation that entered the late AEar with nothing but a sense of fair SBlay at stake-brng our weight into @uture councils or not Our sense of HHair play might defeat some plans @hat they might have. Of course, we Sre "cutting off our nose to spite our Aace." The other fellow should not Feel any great alarm over that. Still, if the Shantung. amendments tre adopted and the Fall amendments ML Adopted, we will have no League of Nations. The greater issue is yet the #Bhantung plan. The League, so far Nl ls we are concerned, will depend upon Mhe Senate vote upon that amendment. Further reservations, further drawing @ @bf teeth" in the plan, are useless. Nit may as we'll be voted upon now as @lecision is forced. It is time fog. the decision. If we must undertake a { #new treaty with Germany on our own x Initiative, it is time that we got
 Btarted.
 The inconsistencies of the Fall Amendments, coupled with the Shan
 pressions of opinion by League op-
 ponents, are, to say the least, amu-- #ng. The Senate committee has @placed itself on record as wishing to lake a part in world affairs when it voted on Shantung. The Irish ques- #tion, the Egyptian question, that of ! Athe Poles, and innumerable others #upon which there have been speeches made, all go to prove that the Senate, wholly or as individuals wishes 70 Hhave it's say on international matters; < wishes to make the weight of the Limited States felt throughout the world Now the Foreign Relations Atalk upon international matters by Removing our representatives from International commissions. Presum- Sably, the senators could rave on un- #disturbed if their utterings were to be #carried no further. The foreign born Bipartisan of one or another district #could read with glee his representa- 8tive's attack upon some nation that Z Twas afflicting the people of his blood -and the representative would not #Iet himself for a thing other than a Flew pages of the Congressional Record and the votes that he might eALAtai1n frnrnn Q fncni of l