Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-02-12
u. S. HAS BEEN
FOOLED BY BRITISH
WILSON GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND
THAT U. >. WOULD SHARE
EQUALLY WITH ENGLAND

! WILSON GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND
THAT U. >. WOULD SHARE
EQUALLY WITH ENGLAND
Come in here, Jack" called I'm
Gle Ted "Your sister wants to hear
another story and as / have to leave
town tonight / haven't much time"
| What are you going to tell us
about" asked Jack.
81 am going to tell you how an
Englishman spoiled President Will
sons plans to have treaty with a
world club that would give England
six votes to our one and make us
send our troops at a moments not
! ice to fight the battles of other coun-
/ tries both large and small"
"Who is her" asked Ruth.
ellis full title is Lord Grey of Fall
lodon, and he is the British ambass-
ador to the United States. He was
! in Washington for several months
and Just a little while ago went back
| to England In all the time he was
| in Washington he was not received
by the president as all ambassadors
must be, because the president was
! ILL., But Lord Grey did not waste
his time in Washington He didn't
say much but he listened to the big
men and came to understand just
the way the United States feels
about this treaty and world club
plan. Before tell you how he
spoiled Mr.. Wilson's plans I must
tell you what the president and SEN
ators who have been for this club
have said all along. They have
all claimed that the allies would re-
fuse to accept the treaty il the
United States adopted the Lodge res
ervations which the majority of the
senate agreed to adopt and which
would protect America and all things
American. During all the time that
they have talked this way there was
no word from the various govern
ments of Europe which would tell us
what they really thought. The re-
publican senators who have refused
to agree to the treaty and world
club plan unless ii did protect Am
erica were sure that the allies would
not refuse to accept the treaty IL our
country adopted the Lodge reserva-
tions but they had no word from
those countries which would prove
their viewpoint.
"As I have told you before. two
things stand out in the treaty as
brought back by President Wilson
which could not be accepted by the
majority of the senators. One is
that part which gives England six
votes in the assembly of the world
club while we have one, and the
other part is known as Article x,
which would bind the United States
to send soldiers or money or both
to help any or every country, a
member Of the club, when they
might get into trouble with anoth-
err"
What does Lord Grey say about
that asked Jack
HE says there is no objection, so
far as England is concerned, to
having the number of votes for the
United States increased. He says
that the senate has a good reason
and right to prevent the world
club representatives from commit
ting this country to actions which
are opposed by congress and he
praises the spirit of the American
people and their idealism and says
that the spirit is still alive there
Now I am going to read you exact
! ly what he says about why the
United States objects to getting tied
hand and foot with Europe. There
| is in the United States he says "a
conservative feeling for traditional
lpolicy, and one of those traditions,
| consecrated by the advice OF WASH
ington, is to abstain from : foreign
and particularly European entangle-
ments. Even for nations which
have been used to European alli-
ances, the league of nations is felt to
/ 4. 1t, re n ~ II
This is still more true for the I'M
tied States. which has hitherto held
aloof from all outside alliances. The
league of nations is not merely a
plunge into the unknown, but a
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plunge into something which its his
torical advise and traditions have
hitherto positively disapproved.
Hence this desire for some qualifica-
ton tnd reservation
Read what he says about the volt
ing in the world club" said JACK.
son that he says many things but
the most important is this: ~ mast
not he supposed that in the United
Statee there is any tendency 10
grudge the fact that Canada and the
other self-governing dominions of
the British empire have votes, but
any person with the smallest under
standing of public audiences must
realize the feeling created by the
statement that the United States,
with several million more English
speaking citizens than there are in
the whole British empire, should
have only one vote while the Brit
ish empire has six votes.
Have any other countries said
anything like this?" asked Ruth
mot yet. But the French gov
eminent either through their am
bassador at Washington or some one
in Paris, is expected to say that the
American reservations will be ac-
ceptable to France. So you see,
kiddies, since Lord Grey says that
the reservations suit England there
Is no ground for further argument
by the democratic senators that the
allies won't accept the treaty il we
adopt these reservations. They
certainly cannot claim to know more
about how the European govern
ments feel on the subject than the
governments themselves. II leaves
President Wilson without what he
thought was his strongest argument
| for the world club plan. IL we
should join the world club now with
out these reservations we would sim
ply be giving Europe something she
doesn't expect.
"The question now is simply this:
| II Great Britain has no objection to
these reservations who has? II