The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-02-02
WANT AMER|CA
IN LEAGUE ON
HER OWN ERM5
Grey's Letter Shows Position of
France and England
OPENING FOR COMPROMISE
English Press Shows Disposition to
Accept Any and All
Reservations
OPENING FOR COMPROMISE

Washington, Feb. IA profound
Impression has been created in Wash
ington by the letter or Viscount Grey
of Falloden, Spec al Ambassador Of
Great Britain to the United States, In
wn ch he gives hs impression Of
Amer can sentiments concerning the
LEAGUE of Nations covenant.
While Lord Grey asserts that his OBJ
seryal ons regarding the American atti
ture rep esent only his own personal
oeirion ard are s mnly given as those
of private individual. there is the
stroasest bel ef here that before pub
fishing his letter he subm tied 1t TO
the London Foreign Office and mem
bers of the British cabinet.
Republican Senators who have been
in the thick of the treaty fight assert
ed tnat the Grey letter merely con
firmed them in what they had known
TO some me, namely, that Brita n
avd France would be willing to have
the United Sta .es enter the League on
IT'S own terms and with the Lodge
reservations as reported from the Sen
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Democrats generally were reticent
but were inclined to regard the letter
the present effort to break the dead
lock in the Senate
While 1t is too early to correctly
gauge the ultimate effect Of the Gre.
'o-te- It Ia asserted by reservation,sts
that 1t opens way for the Presider
to reah h oomprom Sc W III the Rep
ubiicans of the Senate over the League
rrot-c' and that he should fail to
avail himself of this opopr un ". tn
eject Won be to strengthen the CHI
'-- the defeat of the treaty unless the
Lodge reservations were accepted.
London, Feb. lit is evident from
the tone OF editorial comment on Wis
count Grey's recent estimate OF Amer
cas- pos tion on the league of nat on
that 1t set 10 tn condit ons little under
stood before. Viscount Grey's state
ment declared the hesitation OF the
Tn ted States in accepting ths league
of nations Is not due to hostility to
the pr ncip'e. but to const tutiona
quest ons and caution as to the pos
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que.
With the situation clearly expla med
bv such an authority. newspapers here
seem willing TO give the United States
me benefit of the argument, that she
unwill ng to make radical depar
'ure from her former policy without
due consideration. The ie,ter is ew
cd as d powerful appeal to Anne lea TO
enter the league. and tho SUNDAY on
server pleads for the establishment Of
the league quickly even Ii i is not a
Iconsulatory body. without the United
States.
Let us meet the Tn ted States SO
Fliberally and body as to leave her not
an excuse for standing out" the news
paper says.
Complaints over reservations pro
posed by the United States Senate
should be stopped, the newspaper says
and It invites the United States to
rend "eyer r ship'oad Of them" adding
THE more Americas reservations a Q
INDUCED, the less she is inclined to
ins st upon them"
Nat ons, big ard littla, are showing
their worst sides to each other, the
paper goes on, and t asserts that the
heart and soul of Viscount G-ey's plea
is patience"