New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-21
San Reno Decision To
Be Basis for Appeal
to Country Against the
Senate Treaty Action
To Insist on Pact
AS Dominant Issue
Statement Will Serve as
Warning to Party to
Support Administration

WASHINGTON, April co. Fore
warned that the new note from the
Allied Premers at San Reno will con
tain definite refusal on their part tt
follow the program he laid down fol-
settlement of the Turkish controversy
President Wilson is understood to b<
considering the issuance in the neal
future of a public statement chargin.
the Senate with having rendered ttt
position of the United States we'll
nigh helpless by it's action on the
treaty.
If issued, such statement, it is in
dcated, would be in the nature of {
campaign document, blazing the way
f5r the Administration tish. on tho
treaty issue in the coming campaign
md serving as 4 warning to the Demo
Gratis, prior to. the national convention
that the President will insist on the
party getting behind the treaty as the
dominant issue in the campaign.
Although the opinion still prevails
among the Presidents advisers that
he has no intention of being candl-
date to succeed himself, he is repre-
sented as determined to see to it that
the candidate nominated by his party
and the platform on which he runs
are pledged to unreserved support OF
the treaty in its original form.
Again Confers with Cabinet
For the second time in a week. fol
lowing the long period of White House
isolation, the President to-day met with
members of his Cabinet. The lnterna-
tonal situation is understood to have
been dealt with at considerable length
both as regards the general attitude
assumed by the Allied premiers in the
States and the advance indications
which have been reported to the State
Department as to the contents of the
joint Allied note being sent to this gov
ernmcnt on the question of the Turk
ish settlement
These advance indications, it was
limited in official quarters this after
noon, justify in all respects the press
reports from the other side that the
Allies will resolutely refuse to accept
Mr.. Wilson's demand for the expulsion
Of the Turks from Europe and an en-
largement of the territorial limits as
signed to Armenia.
AS the Presidents advisers see it, and
as he himself is said to regard it, the
position of the United States at the
present time SO far as impressing its
views on the Allied governments is an
almost totally helpless one. There
would be no surprise apparently in Of
fetal quarters if the same cold shoul-
der presented to the United States or
the question Of Turkey would be turned
toward this country in the final solu-
ton of the Adriatic dispute and other
has sought to force his views on the
Entente.
Will Put Blame on Senate
For such situation the President
is prepared in any statement to the
public to place the blame on the Sen
ate. At the same time there is evil
dence that he realizes the necessity, in
any attempt so to fix responsibility, OF
justfying his own position in thus fan
pocketing the treaty as it passed the
Senate in it's modified form. The
President is as firmly convinced as
ever, his advisers intimate, that the
Lodge reservations virtually nullifed
the treaty, and made it impossible fol
him to enter the United States into the
league OF nations on any such basis.
With the treaty pocketcd, it is said
by the Presidents advisers, the posi-
ton of the United States at the pres
ent time is far more difficult than it
was when the State Department first
registered its views with the other
powers on the questlo" Of the Turkish
and Adriatic disputes. Then, it is eX-
planned, the President was able to as
sumo in his correspondence that there
was still the prospect that the United
States would enter the league OF ma
tions, and that as a potential member
of the league, it was entitled to q voice
ir Df l>1: 49,, 4,
league would have to assume. Since
the Senate acted, however, such an as
SUMPTION. from the standpoint of the
administration, is denied this govern
mcnt. and officials here point to the
dispatches from San Reno and Paris
as indicating that the Allied premiers
take the same view and are therefore
Indifferent to the opinions of the Presi-
dent.
1t is said emphatically in Admins
tration circles that the Presidents S
views regarding the Turkish question
and the Adratic settlement have not
undergone the slightest change. At
the same time it is admitted he feels
himself hamstrung and looks upon the
whole situation with unconcealcd bit
terness toward the Senate.
State Depa artmcnt Attitude Puzzle
whether the State Department, under
directions from the White House, is
going to modify its decision not to
have representative at San Reno. in
the light of the reports that the Allies
had renewed their suggestion Of such
participation, has given rise to consid-
cradle speculation, without, however
the department giving any definite clew
for guidance,
In view CT what has transprcd al
ready at the San Reno conference, the
diplomatic corps is eagerly waiting to
see whether the President will show
any greater disposition 10 receive per-
sonally Sir Auckland Geddes. the new
British Ambassador, than he was to see
his predecessor or any of the four
other ambassadors and ministers, in
cluding Baron Avenezza, the Italian
representative, who have been waiting
for weeks and months for their initial
presentation at the White House. Sir
Auckland arrived in Washington last
night and lost no time this morning in
presenting himself at the State De-
partment.
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