The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-13
FRANK TALK TO ALLIES
 LOGICAL THING
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

| Correspondence).- A frank conference between the United States and the allies over the after-the-war situation, to adjust the questions that have arisen since the war, is the logical ! thing to hold in view of the Hughes note. The situation needs clearing up.
 One thing is now certai in-the treaty of Versailles is not acceptable to the United States Relations be- tween the United States and the allies must be adjusted without any reference to the treaty, as this coun- 1 try does not recognize that pact. The treaty of Versailles infringes upon rights of the United States as one of the victors in the World war The Versailles pact, therefore, must give way or be revised. The United States, not accepting the treaty, can not be expected to give way or ob- serve whatever construction the al lies see fit to put upon the terms of the treaty. This applies particularly to mandates given by the league over territory taken from the enemy, and especially to the mandate over the island of Yap claimed by Japan. | The Hughes note was a plain state ment of this position and warning to Great Britain. France, Japan and Italy that the United States will not yield any of it's rights as victor to any nation or any league, that were acquired by the World war. Nothing could be plainer than the Hughes note. It is true that President Wil- son yielded some of the rights of the 1 United States at Versailles but he had no authority to do so, and his when the treaty and the league were rejected. This country, by that rejec- l tion, refused to give up any rights to which it was entitled. Therefore no rights were surrendered. The Hughes note says so and means exactly what 1 it says.
 The treaty of Versailles and the | League of Nations was an effort to adjust the relations of the allies, the United States, and Germany and the other enemy nations Both treaty and league have failed. Therefore in order that the separate peace which the United States will soon make with Germany be fair to all nations concerned it would be the part of common sense, not to say diplomatic and international wisdom, that the question still at issue between the .allies and the United States, the prigl- cipal of which are the mandates, be settled. The only way to settle these ence between the United States on the one hand, and Great Britain, France Japan, and Italy on the other hand
 The foregoing is the general opin, ion of the members of the foreign af- fairs committees of house and senate It is also the opinion of the observers of Washington and international af. fairs at the national capital.
 The United States desires peace and friendship with all nations. No one can deny that, though to some of the scheming and lying European diplomats such national attitude of government and people is incompre, hensible. The logical thing for the United States to do, therefore, desir- ing peace and friendship with all nations, is to confer with these na- tions concerning the differences of opinion that have arisen over the treaty and the league.
 It would be a great calamity-tO to hu- manity if the nations that beat the Hun and saved civilization on the battlefields of France should be es- tranged because of the Versailles treaty and the League of nations. An even greater World war might be the result of such arrangement in course of time.
 Recently there have been reports from Paris and London that many of the English and French people be, lieve questions that have been set tied by the League of Nations are settled for all time and cannot be reopened. This is an erroneous Opin
 ion, for the simplest logic and the most elementary common sense should indicate to French and Eng
 fish opinion that the United States
 not being a participant in the treaty or the league, but being one of the nations that won the war, is not
 bound by the opinions or decisions of the other nations who were vic