The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-12-23
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Ratify the Treaty
Anyway
(EDITORIAL)

II President Harding and his four delegates TO the
disarmament conference had tried deliberately to give
the senate irreconciabes plausible argument upon
which to base fight against ratifying the treaties,
they could not have done better job
The delegates, thru their spokesman. Hughes say
that the four-power pact includes the main islands OF
Japan as territory the three powers including the
United States. agree to defend against aggression.
President Harding says that the main islands of
Japan are not incuded-but adds that he has no OBJ
lection TO the other construction
What opening for the senate treaty busters!
IL does not require much stretching of the imagina-
ton to look forward 10 as bitter and long drawnout
debate Article of the treaty Of Washington
over Article 10 Of the treaty Of Versailles
The basis OF the fight against Article 10 that
it was Susceptible of two interpretations Of which
bound to go to under certain conditions.
Exactly the same situation now exists with respect
TO Article OF the Washington treaty with the added
complication that the president and his delegates
disagree to what the article The whole his
tory of American diplomacy offers parallel to the
present situation in its demonstration of the nepttude
of our craftsmanship
II it were not so tragic IL would be joke.
But, notwithstanding all this. the treaty Of Wash
ington MUST be ratified.
But while this is being done the United States must
safeguard itself II must do this by demanding that
and Japan be removed. The big probable cause Of wrr
Is the Japanese aggression Pacific coast. This
must be stopped in its tracks
The United States is already under suspicion
nation which goes back its promises.
America refused to honor the signatures OF her Off
cia representatives at the conference OF Versailles.
Without entering into the reasons for this refusal
the fact remains that the senate did refuse and be-
OF the refusal America everywhere lost
ly in prestige
To refuse second time to honor the signatures of
our treaty-making ministers would others TO
brand the United States international joke and
worse-as irresponsible nation which does not know
what it wants until it gets it, then won't have it-a
nation with which no other country do business
Particularly so. since it this country which
took it upon itself to invite the other nations to the
party.
Ridiculous question: Yes. Incomprehensible ques-
ton? Quite. Illuminating question? Even The
spectacle Of wigge and wobbe presented by Americas
representatives matching their wits with those Of the
diplomats of other lands is all that
But two facts must not be overlooked:
First had not the conference been called there prob
ably would have been in the Pacific within the
next two three years. That horror has at least
been postponed and what is postponed may never
occur Especially not If the Jap immigration matter
is settled.
Second. the Anglo Japanese alliance has been put
into the discard.
The American delegation has been outpIayed. All
right But something has been accomplished neverthe
less and Notwithstanding
The senate must not now in its blindness rob the
country and the world of this little
AMERICA MUST EITHER RATIFY THE FOUR
POWER TREATY, OR PREPARE FOR INTERNA-
TIONAL ISOLATION AND OSTRACISM.