The daily times., 1921-08-29
ALLIES ARE NOT
WHOLLY PLEASED
WITH NEW TREATY
NO PUBLIC CRITICISM
The Allies Are Aware That the
Factional Disputes in the
American Senate Were Re.
sponsible for the Making of
a Separate Peace With Ger.
many to Preserve Harmony
NO PUBLIC CRITICISM
(By David Lawrence).
Copyright, 1921, by The Daily

Washington, Aug. 27.-There is |
pointment of allied diplomats in the !
new peace treaty signed by the Uni !
ted States and Germany The allies |
had been hoping to the last that the |
first signature on the Versailles
treaty, and thus preserve the asso- ,
citation which began in 1917. The Eu-
ropean governments were prepared
Versailles pact which the American
government might have proposed '
They wanted Americas signature on
the treaty of Versailles chiefly for
moral effect
OF course, diplomats do not dis
cuss American domestic politics for
publication, but they are quite aware
that the factional disputes in the
American Senate furnished the un-
derlying reason for the making of a
separate peace with Germany. 1t was
a case of preserving harmony in the
republican party or disappointing the
Administration felt that it was more
important to appease the domestic
! situation than to please Europe.
On many an occasion the European
governments themselves have set
precedent in attaching more weight
,, to their own public opinion and do
mestic politics than international
welfare. One of the so-alled big sec
rets of the Paris peace conference
was the inner reason for the failure
of that conference to fix the size of
the German indemnity, and it was
later acknowledged that because
Prime Minister Lloyd George had
made an extravagant election prom
ise, the peace conference agreed with
the argument of the British Prime
Minister that his own political for
were definitely fixed.
! But leaving aside the considera-
tions of domestic politics with caused
both President Harding and Secre-
tary Hughes to abandon their first
idea of "engaging under the exist
ing treaty of Versailles there are in
allied circles many who predict that
America has not safeguarded her
jthat while the allies are disposed at
| this time to interpose no objection to
the American course of action, the
ichances are that the indirect method
,by which the United States has made
| peace with Germany will furnish
lplenty of legal controversy in future
Years. The allies, of course, owe the
United States a good deal of money
and are not likely in the immediate
future to engage in serious contro-
versy over legal questions, but it is
admitted that the European govern
ments may some day question the
validity of those rights which the
United States has endeavored to ac-
quire by a separate treaty with Ger
many.
The line of thought of those who
contend that the new treaty does not
safeguard Americas rights is that in
the preamble America formally an
nounced to the world that the treaty
of Versailles signed by the United
States was not ratified and is, there
fore, inapplicable to the United
States In later sections of the
Hughes-Knox treaty, America speci
fically claims rights and privileges o.
, the Versailles treaty. The question il
, asked how the United States can il
one breath declare that a certain
} contract is null and void, and in the
next breath insist that certain part:
, of the contract are valid.
J In answer to this query, American
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