Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-07-16
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TREATY AND LEAGUE
BELIEF Is Ut 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 q. CLARK.

~ G6"AnC D. NGfAVNs
Washington.-Men who are nc
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 that
they are written, but that there will
be series of written reservations
passed by the senators 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
a fact that men who are opposed to
the covenant as 1t stands and men
who are in favor of 1t agree in effect
that the outcome Is to be as above
written.
What the reservations will be in
their entirety cannot be told, but it is
known that in part they will concern
themselves with immigration ques-
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
embrogliss.
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 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
q 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. A Boche
airplane dropped a bomb near the
generals headquarters and he was
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 it 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
| dngton 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 1t will solve all the war
| problems of the universe. or that II
| win prevent for all time territorial
and racial chickering's. They want the
| League of Nations mainly because the
| United States will be a 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 hest thing
Hun Army Was Whipped.
An American correspondent, Frank
n. Sjmonds. 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 pr1nc1-
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, and
that when surrender came 1t was not
| forced but voluntary, because Of de-
sire to end the war in behalf or all
peoples.
American army officers, some of
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 a
lie, and that the people of Germany
ought to be made to know that it 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 CRIMES 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.
It ought to do some good to let all
Americans know that while Germany
could have fought for while longer,
she could have fought nothing but a
defensive battle on line that would