The Washington times., 1921-03-19
TREATY DEAD
WITH HARDING
Republican Senators Confident
President Will Eventually
Urge Separate Peace.

While President Harding has not
yet undertaken any serious discus
sions of the peace situation with Re-
publican leaders of the Senate, there
is widespread belief among them
that conditions are so shaping up
that a separate peace between the
United States and Germany is going
to prove the only way out Of the
treaty tangle.
AWAIT FOREIGN ENJOYS.
Nothing definite will be done in the
matter of shaping up a program until
II is seen what propositions the for
eign ENJOYS have to offer. NJ. Viviani.
the French representative, is due to
arrive in Washington before the open
ing OF the new Congress to. plead the
cause of the league. He probably will
be followed by representatives OF
other countries.
President Harding himself has EN-.
phasized that he has not taken up
seriously the treaty tangIe with his
erstwhile colleagues on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. He has
nevertheless discussed the situation
generally and informally with several
Senators. and those with whom he has
talked have come away from the
White House convinced that Harding
never will re-submit the treaty
either with the covenant or without
IL, or with or without Article X.
IL Is generally believed In Wash
,fngton that NJ Viviani Is coming to
the United States to suggest to Pres
ident Harding that the. Senate take
the treaty and raify II with any
changes It sees ft, but ratify IL in
some way or other. so as to preserve
an outward semblance at least of the
wartime solidarity OF the great
powers.
II NJ. viviani does make some
concrete proposals along these lines.
1t is the belief of a number of influ-
entail Republican Senator's that they
will be turned down at the White
House.
The status OF the Knox resolution
declaring an end to the state of war
with Germany is unsettled. 1t will not
ls Introduced. however, until there is
some Qualification OF the Rhine situa-
tion. While present indications make
a separate peace appear not unlikely,
there Is no desire on the part of either
the White House or the Senate to pro-
vide Germany with any moral support
by widening the Franco-British-
American breach just when military
The Knox resolution for the present
has been pigeon-holed. 1t may be
pulled out at any time, or IL may stay
there, depending upon the turn Of
events.
THREE PROPOSITIONS.
Those Senator'S who incline TO the
belief that a separate peace will, in
the last analysis, prove the only way
natA hat gtt In h q
resolved itself into three propositions.
These, as outlined today, are:
First, shall we enter the League
of Nations. and rstify the treaty: Sec
ond, shall we drift along indefinitely
In technical state of war with Ger
many; third, shall we make peace
with Germany on terms satisfactory
to ourselves?"
I'm my judgment" said one mem
mittee who was a Lodge reservation
ist during the Senate fight. "the FIRST
two of these are simply out of the
Question. There isn't the remotcst
chance of our going into the league.
We have gone through all that. It's
as old as Article Y itself. And
the demand for re-establishment Of
our peaceable relations with Ger
many Is becoming SO strong that |
don't see how it can be denied much |
longer.
Certainly no one can question our
Sght to make peace with Germany |
and Austria in our own way. I DER
sonally favor the purpose and intent |
of the Knox resolution, but I also |
/ elleve II to be inopportune just |
now.
Thus you lead UP to the making Of |
a separate peace. We could gather
up the loose ends, like those involv-
ing alien property and commercial re-
which a Congressional reso-
luton would be apt TO leave dangling.
and negotiate them.
"By making a separate peace we |
would not be abandoning our asso-
ciates in the war. We could demand /
of Germany what we are rlghtfully /
entitled to, and we could warn her
at the same time that we reserved the n
right to mix in again overseas
should IL be necessary" Il