Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-05-06
WHERE ARE YOU GOING,
bristol Herald Courier. !

-, lStoi I1eTulu COURIER
The United States Senate has pass.
ca the Knox resolution declaring the
state OF war with Germany and Aus.
ira at an end, and President Hard.
ing will sign it. The action is cithe,
the first step toward sencrnte
peace with Germany or it means
nothing except further complications
for the United States.
The fight for adoption of the reso-
luton was led by Senator Lodge. vet
II 1T shall lead to q separate peace il
IS only necessary to recall utterances
OF Senator Lodge, delivered lust af-
ter the close of the war, to under
stand the position in which it places
the United States. In December. 1918.
Mr.. Lodge wrote in the Forum mar,
azine as follows:
The President who delivered the
war message and the Congress- who
voted for war would be guilty of the
blacklist crime if they were willing
TO make peace on the staotus quo
ante-bellum, and recreate the sit,io-
ton which existed before tahc war.
II we send our armies and our vounr
men abroad to be killed and wounded
n Northern France and FLANDERS
with no result but this, our entrance
INTO war with such an intention WINS
= crime which nothing can Justify.
, me intent of Congress and the in
'ent OF the President was that there
could be no peace until we. could
'reate situation where no such war
rs this could recur. We can not make
oeace except in company with our
lillcs. 1t would brand us with ever
lasting dishonor and bring ruin to us
also II we undertake to make n sepn-
rate peace"
IT the United States has started
IN the road to n separate peace il
mas started on the road to dishonor.
put II the peace resolution does not
lead in that direction it leads afield
where complications may lie in wat.
The resolution ends technical state
Of wal. and inaugurates technical
state OF peace, for We have no treaty
with Germany and there can be M
peace without n treaty. 1t will have
SO little effect on the situation eth
er ut home or abroad that the peo-
PIE VIII see no change. Moreover. we
nave no mems of knowing whether
me Terms OF the resolution will be
satisfactory to our former enemies,
while we have every reason to be-
lieve they will not be peasinr to our
former associates in the war. 1t will
ne fortunate if the first and great
nst effect of the resolution shall not
ne to further encourage German re-
distance to the terms of the Treaty
# Versailles.
Since there can be no peace with
out q treaty, it follows that the
United States must negotiate a trea-
ty with Germany before there is
real peace. The treaty must be nego-
tlated either independently OF in COM
pany with our former Allies. and
since the Treaty of Versailles has
been rejected by the United States
Senate. we must eithr make a sepa-
rate peace with Germany or our
former Allies must join with us in
"scrapping" the Treaty of Versailles
and making n new peace. Whether
Great Britain and France and Italy
will agree to such a program remains
to be seen, but it may be regarded as
very doubtful, since those Powers re-
alize the difficulty of making anoth-
Ell peace with Germany that would
be as advantageous to them as the
peace concluded at Versailles. To re.
open the whole question would at
once create grave situation and the
Allies may decline such proposal.
If so, adoption of the Knox resolu-
tion has started us on the road to q
separate peace. II has started us on
the road to dishonor and perhaps to
disaster. We are on our way but we
DO not know where we are going.