The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-08-20
INSISTS
IF RESERVATIONS,
ARE TO BE MADE THEY
SHOULD BE MADE IN A
SEPARATE RESOLUTION
AND NOT IN THE RESO-
LUTON OF RATIFICA-
TION AS THAT WOULD
CALL FOR MORE NEGO-
TIATION.

LA xO4Ns
Washington, d. c., August 20 /
Four reservations in the League OF
Nations covenant are embodied in
the repirt of resolution by Senator
Pittman of Nevada, Democrat, and
a member of the Foreign Relations
Committee for introduction in the
Senate. He said that this is the re-
suit of recommendations made by
the President who stated that if res
ervations were made at all they
should be made in separate reso-
luton and not in the resolution of
ratification, as that would lead to
more negotiation and greater delay.
Senator Pittman stated that the
resolution had not been shown to the
President, but that it dealt with the
question of withdrawal and the
right of a nation to withdraw from
the League of Nations pact should
It deem it necessary to do So, and
also Article 10, which dealt with
domestic questions and the Monroe
Doctrine.
Washington, Aug. 19-Senators
johnson, of California, and Borah,
of Idaho, Republicans, declared in a
statement tonight that upon the
facts developed at the White House
conference today as stated by them
the position they had maintained
SIN To Of
League of Nations is justified and
confirmed
'sThe League of Nations as con-
strued by the President they said,
'eleaves it clear and unmistakable
that when we enter it we are under
a compelling moral obligation, to
say nothing of the legal obligation
which other supporters contend we
are under, to take part in the dis
turbances, the conflicts, settlements
any should arise, and it is equally
true that under his construction,
Europe would necessarily be under
the same impelling force to take
part in the settlement of American
AFFAIRS
The Senators said that in their
opinion, ''the significant facts de-
veloped by the interview with the
President were:
"'There yet remains treaties of
peace to be made with Austria,
hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman
Emuire. These treaties deal with
subjects as important, territory as
extensive, and matters as intimate
ly Affecting the United States as the
treaty with Germany. The obliga-
tions of the United States, there
fore. what our country assumes in
the future, cannot be determined
until these treaties are completed
and presented to the United States
Senate.
ssThat the President regards the
obligations which will be assumed
under the League of Nations, and
particularly under articles ten and
twenty as moral obligations. These,
however, are of compelling force
and would require action upon our
part. For instance, the President
comedies that in undubted cases OF
aggression from the Balkans upon
the newly acquired territory of It
aly. it would be our duty to come to
the assistance of Italy and prevent
such aggression. The Presidents s
construction of article ten is at va
rance with the construction of the
Democratic attorneys of the Senate
ga moral obligation, the Presi
dent insists, rests upon us to carry
out the terms of the various trea'
ties of peace. This moral obliga
tion, the President states, require!
MS under the German treaty for fit.
teen years to maintain American
troops in Europe.
.'The President did not know, MOI