Evening star., 1921-03-19
Party Pledges and Foreign
Pressure Will Force De.
CiSion on Versailles Pact.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS ISSUE
SURE TO GET TO THE FORE
Covenant So Bound With Treaty It
Could Not Be Avoided in End.
ing State of War.
RH n a. MESSENGEn
BY \. q. MESSENGER.

| While faction of senators bitter
| ly deprecate reopening the subject
Of the league of nations, they are
aware that the administration is con-
| fronted by a condition and rot a
theory regarding the Versailles
treaty, and the declaration of a state
of peace with Germany which in
wolves collateral discussion of the
league.
Here are some of the hard. cold
facts which the administration will
tace when the international situation
is brought up on the arrival of NJ
Viviani:
That the party In power js
pledged to an early peace with Ger
many and yet the administration is
advised that to declare a separate
peace now would be regarded as
weakening the position of the allies
I in their efforts to exact repa-ation
from Germany and fulfilment of the
terms Of the treaty by Germany.
That issistent pressure will be
brought to bear to have the treaty
of Versailles laid before the Senate.
with view to it's ratification with
the league of nations covenant omit
ed or modified by the Senate.
That France Will argue with greater
earnestness the necessity, from her
viewpoint, of the United States lend
ing its moral strength to the press
ure being exerted on Germany, by
the United States becoming in some
way. however modified, party to
the Versailles treaty.
LenEue to the Front.
In consideration of any or all of
these propositions. 1t is regarded as
highly proba BILE that the league of
nations will be brought to the fore.
even though lugged into the discus
sion by the ears. The irreconcilable
senators are fighting against this
prospect and decrying it's possibilities.
but the other faction cannot see how
! 1t is to be avoided, and, of course
| they do not want it avoided.
! No one has yet pointed out how the
league of nations can be dissected
F.! from the Versailles treaty and leave
| that instrument a document which
the Senate could treat ~eparately
from the league issue Perhaps the
"PhiladelDhia lawyer" who could per-
form this feat is lowering in the
offing, but thus far he is topsails
down below the horizon. it is said.
1t is said that certain distinguish
ed convalescent out in the northwest
section of the capital is regarding with
some satisfaction the irritation pre-
vailing in senatorial circles over the
imminency of reopening of the league
of nations issue. Ever since the treaty
was sent back to the White House by
the Senate. this parsonage has held
that in the end the Senate would have
to again take cognizance Of the Ver-
sailles treaty, and would again be con-
fronted with the issue of the league of
nations.
Domestic Questions First.
The present determination of the
administration is to urge upon Con-
gress attention to domestic questions
first. But NJ. Niviani is on the. high
seas and when he reaches Washing
ton il is held that while Congress is
attending to its domestic knitting the
administration viii have to give no.
tice to the questions which the
French statesman is bringing over
for presentation to President Hard
ing's notice.
Senator Harry s. New of Indiana,
affiliated with the irreconcilables,
still contends that it will .be practi-
cable to declare A separate peace with
Germany, and take the curse" off
such action by adding the declaration
which was contained in the original
Knox resolution, of the Willingness
and intention of this country again to
take part, by force of arms, in a con-
dition created by Germany similar to
the crisis of 1914.