The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-26
Business Men are Interested
in Getting the Peace
Settled.
WILSON'S MOVE NEXT
He May Enter Into a Dip
lomatic Understanding
With Germany.
4 Copyright 1920, BY The Wash.
;nojo, Sto,)

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Special Dispatch TO The West virginian.)
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Of para.
MOUNT Importance in legislative, ad
ministrative and diplomatic circles is
the course to be followed by the Uni
ted States alternative to the rejection
Of the treaty of Versailles. Command
ing business interests OF the country
at large reflect concern over the situa
lion.
During the long and wearisome de.
bate in the Senate over the treaty OF
peace with Germany, the public may
nave obtained the idea that the only
question was whether the United
States should join the league of ma
lions This may have been the sub.
iect most prominently brought to the
lore; It may have been deemed the
most Important but 1t was far from
being the sole issue involved in the
ireaty consideration
In point of fact, the treaty of Yer
sailles' principal object was to estab
ish a status of peace between Eng
and, France, Italy, the United States
logether with the allied and asso-
;iated nations" with Germany. 1t con-
aimed far reaching provisions bearing
Upon the business, social and economic
conditions. for the peace settlement
which were to affect the nations con.
serned for years to come. 1t contained
provisions of reparation for public and
private losses entailed by European
gcyernments, and for private losses
suffered by Americans very important
from o financial and economic stand
ppfnt.
That the treaty has beenfratified by
The great powers other than the United
States, and, in respect to all the bust.
ness and economic questions Is now a
going concern; that is to say, 1t has
started going, for there is an immense
amount of detail yet to be perfected by
conference and commission work. The
United States has signed the treaty,
Las Agreed to become party in manner
specified to all these preparations and
plans for the starting up of business,
but refusal of the Senate of the United
States, tesrati Sthe .tpeatDas negotiat.
cd and signed rinvaIidates the partici.
patton Of this country in the manner
and 70 the extent stipulated in the
treaty
AS eeyeryone knows, the treaty was
rejected because the President in ne.
gotiating it had literally Fulfilled the
threat he made upon starting on his
second journey to Paris, to inextrica.
bly weave the covenant of the league
o. nations into the warp and wool of
the treaty of peace itself. Efforts to
separate the covenant of the league
OF nations for consideration apart
from the other features of the treaty
failed early in the consideration of the
treaty in the Senate and 1t was un.
ayotdable thereafter that the whole
structure should stand or fall as one
edifice,
IT Is the universal Judgment in
Washington that no plan to revive the
league ofsnations project can possibly
be put through the Senate in the pres.
ent state of opinion in that body. Sen.
ators are not likely to change their
mind unless they have direct mandate
from their constituents to do so and
10 such command may come until the
question has been threshed over in the
national campaign now pending.
But in the meantime, some means
must be devised for the participation
Of the United States In the settlement
q the business questions involved in