The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-07-10
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TREATY AND LEAGUE
BELIEF is 1T 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
lance.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.


Washington.-Men who are ac-
counted keen observers of legislative
situations seem to believe today that
the peace treaty and the league
covenant will be sanctioned by the
United States senate In the form thai
they are written, but that there will
be series of written reservations
passed by the senator's which will con-
Germ 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 a correct one, but 1t is
fact that men who are opposed to
the covenant as it 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-
lions, 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 x4+ifh hn nn
such an outcome as that outlined
above. 1t seems that the British and
the French are perfectly willing to al
low the United States to make its
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 VariIIa Favors League.
Bunau Varilla, the great French
engineer who directed the work on
the Isthmus of Panama when the
French company had it in charge, is
in Washington. This Frenchman lost
a leg mt 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. A Boche
alrplane dropped a bomb near the
MANNED, 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 ii is under
stood are most other Frenchmen OF
high official standing. This also is
true of the British of like estate. One
learns one thing, however, in Wash
ington through direct and indirect
touch with visiting foreigners, and the
facts may just as well be faced. 1t 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 war
problems of the universe. or that 1t
will prevent for all time territorial
and racial chickering's. They want the
Ieague of Nations mainly because the
United States will be a party to it,
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
II. 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 princi-
pies 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 ana
that when surrender came 1t was not
forced but voluntary, because of de-
sire to end the war in behalf Of all
peoples.
American army officers, some or
whom are I'm Washington, and scores
of them still In France, know that this
German contention is a lie, that the
German authorities know that 1t Is Il
lie, and that the people of Germany
ought 70 be made to know that It Is a
! lie,
! one Of the worst features of TINS 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 that thousands OF
Americans seem to think the same
thing They are just as badly In
formed on the subject as are many
of the German people.
What All Americans Should Know.
1t ought to do some good 10 let all
Americans know that while Germany
could have fought for a while longer
she could have fought nothing but a
defensive battle ON line that would
have crumbled quickly and laid open
her country TO the invading forces.