Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1920-05-12
4 SEPARATE PEACE WITH GER.
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the declaration ofszwars provides de-
finitely for q separate peacs With Gefs
many. s
Senator Knox's speech III support
OF this resolution was an argument in
favor Ola separate peace with Ger
many. To use his exact words, "Yet
wisdom requires the negotiation Of a
separate peace between the United
States and Germany which should pro-
vide reciprocal rights and obligations
between MS and that country alone. -
Thus thesSenator from Pennsylv WANT
has carried the Lodge programme. OF
obstruction to its logical conclusion.
TO be sure, Senator Lodge has never
personally advocated separate peace,
On the contrary, in December, 1918.
on the eve of the Peace Conference, he
said that
We cannot make peace in the Ordln-
sry way. We cannot, in the first place,
make peace except in company with
our allies. 1t would brand us with ever
lasting dishonor and bring ruin to us
also II we undertook to make q separ-
ate peace.
In spite OF all these fine words, how
ever, the Lodge leadership in respect
to the Treaty of Versailles has led
straight to the separate peace that Sem
ator Knox now boldly demands. "A Re-
publican House of Representatives has
already adopted resolution for one
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lican Senate, with the aid and support
of Senator Lodge, is preparing to a.
dept the Knox resolution for another
kind of separate peace.
All pretense that the Lodge reser-
yations "Americanize" the League Of
Nations is swept aside by Senator
Knox. He finds in them another mem
ace to the peace of the. world, an added
source Of danger. Again we quote his
exact words:
It has been said that reservations
proposed in the Senate Americanize
the League. This, Of course, is not
true. A more accurate statement Of
the effect Of these reservations is
that they tend to make it safer for
America to enter the League by re-
fusing to be bound in many important
matters by it's action. But it is not
enough that the League shall be
made safe for America; it must be
made safe for all who enter it and
safe for the world AS see it, moth
ing could be fraught with more dan
ger than any nations having spe-
clally Insured relation to q league
where the other nations are subject
to the dangers against which the Inn
mune nation attempts to secure It.
self.
Senator Knox thus indorses without
reservations President Wilson's argu-
ment against the Republican claim for
special privileges for the United States
In the League Of Nations.
Diminishing those parts Of Senator
Knox's speech which are merely politi-
cal vituperation against the President,
and dismissing his absurd accusation
that the President is responsible for
the continuation Of war powers which
Congress could have repealed at any
time during the year in which it has
been in session, the Knox argument
reduces itself to concrete issue,
which is a legitimate issue, and which
may be fairly submitted to the .Ameri-
can people-the issue of separate
peace with Germany.
1t has seemed to The World through
out this long and bitter controversy
inSt the United States ought to take
one of two courses-either ratify the
Treaty of Versailles as accepted by
Germany and ratified by all the other