The daily times., 1921-07-14
HUGHES ASSIGNED
TASK MAKING OUT
OTHER PEACE Plan
SEPARATE GERMAN PEAcl
GERMAN. PEACE
The Allies Are Receivers for a
Bankrupt Germany and I'm
less America Wants to Re-
sumo Her Place as Receiver
She Must Put Herself Out
side the Allied G roup.
(By David Lawrence):

(By David Lawrence):
(Copyrigh, 1921, by Daily Times).
Washington, July 13.-President
Harding has aske Secretary Hughes
to work out an alternative proposi-
ton to that of the Versailles treaty
as a means of making peace with
Germany. This doesn't mean that the
submitting the Versailles pact with
reservations but it does mean that
that Mr.. Harding feels the necessity
of ~exhausting every legal resource
that might accomplish peace with
Germany and yet not offend the ele-
ments in the Senate who believe the
United States ought never to put its
approval on any part of the agree
ment negotiated at Versailles by Pres
ident Wilson.
Whether there is an alternative is
yet to be determined. Mr.. Hughes
is searching precedents and consider
ing new devices, of law. He himself
believes Americas rights will never
be as well safeguarded as they would
be under the Versailles past and
would so hold if he could have his
way but he is endeavoring to do for
Mr.. Harding what any able lawyer
would do for his client-find a way
to meet not only the external Difficult
ties of an international character but
the internal troubles of a political ma
ture which may impede ratification
in the Senate.
sidered which may or may not be eff
fective. 1t is SO novel that its effects
cannot Immediately be conjectured.
1t involves making a separate treaty
with Germany but claiming under
such a treaty all the rights and priv
iIeges which were given the United
States under the Versailles pact. In
other words Germany having bestow-
the Principal allied and Associated
powers certain rights and privileges
would now subtract those rights
from the Versailles pact SO far as
they affect the United States and
, transfer them to new treaty.
The objection to such course is
two-fold. Would the Allies consent.
and second, would America be legal
ly as secure even if the Allies did? ?
The big fact IS that Germany hasn t
any rights to give away anymore and
no longer can withdraw from the
Versailles treaty anything she gave
away in that pact without first get
| ting the consent of the signatories
to that treaty-the great powers In
other words Germany cant agree to
anything with the United | States
without the consent of the allies. The
peace negotiations will be nominally
with Germany but in rea1ity with the
Allies. To make a separate treaty
opens up that whole question. To sub
NIT the Versailles treaty with reser-
vations means that the consent OF the
Allies to those reservations is not
necessary. The United States would
merely be approving and subscribing
to certain articles of the treaty but
would decline to be a party to other
articles such as those involving the
enforcement of the treaty either
through the league of nations or any
other instrumentality.
] Some of the legal experts believe
that separate treaty with Germany
! even though it's first paragraph mlgh'
grant all the rights which Germany
had previously given the United
: States in the Versailles treaty Woult
: not bind Germany in the end because
having disposed of those rights IL
i the first place to the Allies and th'
| United States as group, it may d
/. that the failure of the United Safe
to remain member of the groul
: known as the Principal Allied an
i Associated Powers means losing tn
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