The spectator., 1919-07-15
SENATE ID RAT|FY
 . TREATY AND LEAGUE
BELIEF IS TT 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 liance.
By EDWARD 8. CLARK.

| Washington.-Men who are ac- l situations seem to believe today that | the peace treaty and the league covenant will be sanctioned by the United States senate in the form that they are written, but that there will be series Of written reservations passed by the senators which will con cern themselves with the attitude of the United States in the future to- wards certain provisions of the docu- ment or documents.
 | Of course it cannot yet be definitely determined whether this view of the situation is correct one, but 1t Is fact that men who are opposed to the covenant as 1t stands and men who are in favor of it 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- tons. 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.
 l have talked with men who are in touch with the foreign feeling on such an outcome as that outlined above. It seems that the British and the French are perfectly willing to al- low the United States to make it's 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 varlIa Favors League. Bunau Varilla. the great French engineer who directed the work oD the Isthmus of Panama when the | French company had it in charge, is in Washington. This Frenchman lost leg at Souilly. not far from Yer dun, about two years ago. He was
 the engineer in charge of providing the water supply for the French ar mics and it was some job. X Boche arplane dropped n bomb near the | generals headquarters and he was maimed, but notwithstanding the number of his years he recovered. later
 to return to the front and still later
 to journey to the United States.
 Bunau Varilla is in favor of a
 League of Nations. So it is under
 stood are most other Frenchmen of
 high official standing. This also is l l,1oc,ne tho BrjtiSh nf sIlIe. ekaxes l0ns' touch With vi1ifink fcrelxaefs and the facts may just as welfbe faced. It is not to be supposed that the French and British are in love with the League of Nations so much because they believe it will solve all the wnr problems of the universe, or that 1t will prevent for all time territorial and racial bickerfnss. They want the League of Nations mainly because the United States will he party to 1t. and France and England. barring the possibility of an actual alliance with the United States. feel that the league Is the next best thing.
 Hun Army Was Whipped.
 An American correspondent, Frank H. Simonds, cabling from Paris. says: German public men are making des- perate efforts, with certain success in some directions, to give the impression that the German surrender last No vember was due solely to the pr'nci- ples of the fourteen points"
 This simply means that the German officials are trying to make their peo- pie believe their army and their navy were undefeated last November. and that when surrender came it was not forced but voluntary. because of de- sire to end the war in behalf of all peoples.
 American army officers. some cf whom are in Washington, and scores of them still in France, know that this German contention is lie, that the German authorities know that 1t Is lie, and thnt the people of Germany ought to be made to know that 1t Is lie.
 One of the worst features of this at tempt on the part of the German high command is to make 1t appear that their armies were not in bad way last November is thnt thousands of Americans seem to think the same thing. They arc just as badly in- formed on the subject as arc many of the German people.
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