New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
All Rights Claimed by
u. S. Under Versailles
Treaty Are Conceded in
Conferences in Berlin
''Deserting Allies
Charges Refuted
Successful Negotiations
Regarded as Triumph
for Harding and Hughes
By Carter Field


WASHINGTON, July 30.-Negotia-
tlons for treaty of peace with Ger
many, conceding everything that the
United States was assigned in the Yer
sales Treaty and every point made in
the Porter-Knox peace resolution. have
practically been concluded. Dispatches
from Berlin to the effect that the Ger
man government is entirely willing.
following the negotiations conducted
through American Commissioner Ellis
Loring Dresel, to make these conces-
sions in treaty with the United
States, only confirmed what was actu-
ally understood by the Administration
would happen.
The cablegrams to-day, however, ex-
plain the confidence at the White
House yesterday that President Har-
ding would issue the peace proclama-
tion while he is at the summer lodge
OF Secretary of War Weeks in New
hampshire next week, despite the
doubt of Attorney General Daugherty
as to whether he would have his report
ready for the President prior to his re-
turn to Washington.
Administration Circles JubiIant
There is great deal of jubilation
in Administration circles over this
news. Republican leaders are partic-
ularly pleased, not only because of
the speeches by Democrats in the
House and Senate during the debates
over the peace resolution, but on &C.
count of statements made by Demo-
Gratis on the stump during the Har-
ding-Cox campaign and biting, sarcas-
tic editorials in Democratic newspa-
pers during both the campaign and
the peace debate.
No one here has forgotten the Juror
which the Democrats set up during the
peace" For one thing, it was described
"as deserting the Allies" though this
is not the most important point. 1t
WAS the Democratic question: "How
are you going to force Germany to
conclude treaty; are you going to
send our boys back into Germany 2,
That aroused the most resentment, be-
cause there was no fiat answer which
could be made. A denial of that in
sinuation, though it was believed by
President Harding-then Candidate
Harding-and his advisers to be as
false as "He kept us out Of the war"
had been four years ago, was merely
an expression of opinion and there
fore not convincing to the skeptical.
Moreover the Wilson Administration
was in power. 1t had it's own men
abroad, and the country generally pre-
sumes that official advices are more
accurate than the spoken words of men
- -sLk -
to be to get into Office.
Harding Vindicated
;. To-day, however, Mr.. Harding is vim
dicated in his campaign declarations
that he favored the Conclusion of a
peace with Germany at the earliest
possible moment He is vindicated in
his inaugural address, and Secretary of
State Hughes, through the negotiations
he has conducted through Commits
sioner Dresel at Berlin, has demon
strated that the Republican leadership
in the last Congress was right in pass
ing a separate peace resolution-the
one which was vetoed by President
Wilson,
1t is believed here that the peace
treaty will be framed in the next few
weeks, and will be signed almost i'm
medlAtely after that. This VIII be fol-
lowed at once by the appointment Of
an ambassador to Germany, and the
sending by Berlin of an ambassador
to Washington. The Department of
Commerce already has agents operat-
ing in Germany, so that no change in
that situation is expected. With am
bassadors representing the two coun-
tries the relationship of the United
States with Germany will be similar,
after long delay, to that established
long ago by Britain, France, Italy and
the other co-belligerants in the war
against Germany.
Harding Upholds United States Rights
AS regards what the differences in
the situation may be as compared to
what would have been if this country
had ratified the Versailles treaty the
situation is most peculiar. President
Harding and Secretary Hughes have
taken very firm stand that, despite the
refusal of this country to ratify the
Versailles treaty, it is nevertheless
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