Pueblo chieftain., 1921-07-17
AMERICAN FAVOR
SWINGS TO TREATY
Continued from Page One,

tons. excluding the League of Ma
One of the most irreconcilable of the
bitter-ender senators was asked the
other day this question DO you take
the position that out of the entire l00,-
900 words of the peace treaty it is not
possible to detach. say, 10000 words
which would be acceptable to you?"
This Senator's reply was well, let me
see the 10000 words
Everything points toward the prob
ability that just this thing will happen,
but Secretary Hughes will perform on
the peace treaty as a whole a feat of
surgery hitherto quoted: that he will
take out of it and cast aside all that
pertains to the League of Nations, and
that he will save from it all that is
necessary and desirable for us to re-
establish our relations with Germany
and the Allies on a practicable basis:
that this residue will be sent to the
senate, and that the senate will ratify.
For this prediction there Is of course
no authority except what is inherent
in the situation.
One of the sets of facts which points
toward this probability is the difficulty
of making a treaty with Germany in
any other way. Everybody realizes now
that the pasSag e of the resolution de-
claring peace with Germany was a mere
gesture. The only effects of that So
lhNioll dit anu are uOlleS-
tic 1t has a bearing on statutes and
contracts which were made for the du-
ration of the war. but as regards our
foreign affairs that resolution means
nothing and can mean nothing. Our
relations with Germany and with
Europe today are practically the same
as they were before the resolution was
passed.
The real business of re-esta blishinG
relations with Germany remains in the
future, and the only practicable ap-
| proach to that task lies thru the rati-
| fication of the Versailles treaty. We
cannot make any treaty with Germany
except subject to the terms of the Yer
| sailles treaty. Germany is not free
agent. She is bound by the treaty of
Versailles. She has given a mortgage
to the Allies, and any dealings which
she might attempt to have with the
| United States direct must be subject to
that mortgage. Germany is like
bankrupt in the hands of her creditors
We can only deal with Germany and
can only make a treaty with Germany
| by and with the consent of the Allied
nations, who control her economic eN-
istence thru the Versailles treaty, and
any treaty we may make with Ger
many must be subject to their ap-
proval To be sure, Secretary Hughes
has taken the position that our rights
remain what they were before the Yer
sailles treaty was made: And so far
the Allies have asserted this position.
1t Is in fact one OF the triupmhs of
Mr.. Hughes course. But this does not
alter the fact that the only simple way
to make a new treaty with Germany
Is to ratify the treaty, with such reser-
vaions as will exclude everything in
that treaty with which we are not con-
cerned.
II President Harding should conclude
to go about the making of new
treaty with Germany and the resum-
ing of normal relations with the rest
| OF the world by means of ratifying the
Versailles treaty with reservations, he
will be In strong position to do so.
Ever since his Inauguration he has
grown steadily in public favor. while
the senate has not. One move after
another that Harding has made has
brought him an increasing momentum
of public approval. He is now In such
position that II he should choose to
press the Versailles treaty with reser-
vattons on the senate. even against
the will of considerable portion OF
the senate. he would probably win.
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