News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-08-31
PEACE TREATY
With GERMANY
Signing of Pact Announced, With
Summary Showing Versailles
Treaty Disregarded.
HUGHES EXPLAINS DOCUMENT
Cermanys Reconciliation OF Overseas
Possessions Jointly to Big Five Ia
ReaHlrmed-Treaty Now
Up to Senate.

Berin.-The treaty Of peace between
Germany and the United States was
signed here
The signing occurred in the office OF
Foreign Minister Rosen in the VIII.
helmstrasse, around the corner from
the Offices Of the American Commits
Sion
The function occupied about ten min
utes. Ellis Loring Dresel, the Ameri
can commissioner who was sea&ed Op,
posite the foreign minister at the lat,
ter's desk, signed both copies Of tho
treaty first and then pushed the docu
ment across the desk to Herr Rosen,
who affixed his own signature
The German foreign minister, in
signing, expressed qualification at this
act for the resumption of friendly rela.
tons between the two nations. MI
Dresel replied with reciprocal sentI,
ments.
Secretary Of State Won Haniel, pre-
sumably acting on instructions from
DR.. Rosen, Informed correspondents it
was quite impossible that they
should describe at first hand for the
American public the signing Of the
treaty.
Washington.-The treaty Of peace
between Germany and the United
States, negotiated at Berlin between
representatives Of the two govern
ments was made public at the State
Department by Secretary Hughes after
he had been advised that the document
had been signed in Berlin.
The compact assures to the United
States all the rights accruing to this
country under the treaty of Versailles,
but provides specifically that the Unit
ed States shalt not be bound by the
clauses of the Versailles compact re
lating to the League of Nations, as IS
shown by the following statement Is
sued by the State Department:
Terms of the Treaty
"The treaty defining peace relations
between the United States and Ger
many was signed at Berlin. 1t was
signed on behalf of the President of
the United States by Ellis Loring.
Dresel, commissioner of the United
States, who had received full powers
for the purpose and on behalf Of the
President Of Germany by Dr. Friedrich
ROsen, minister of foreign affairs.
"The treaty with Germany is in &C,
cord with the peace resolution adopted
by Congress and approved by the Pres
ident on July 2, 1921.
"The preamble Of the treaty recites
Sections 1, 2 and 5 of the resolution.
which relate to Germany.
article l Of the treaty provides that
the United States shall have all the
tents and advantages specified in the
resolution, including those stipulated
for the benefit of the United States in
the treaty Of Versailles.
Article of the treaty defines moro
particularly the obligations Of Germa,
ny with respect to certain provisions in
the Treaty of Versailles. Thus 1t is
provided that the rights and advans
tages stipulated in the Treaty of YER
sailles for the benefit of the United
States which it IS intended the United
States shall enjoy are those denied in
Section l of Part " and Parts v, VI,
VIII, IN, X, Nj, MI, XIV and XIV,
Section l of Part ". contains the
provisions by which Germany renounc.
ed her former overseas possessions In
favor of the principal allied and asso.
ciated powers This confirms the
rights of the United States with re.
spect to zap and the other former Ger,
man overseas possessions upon an
equality with the other powers.
"The other parts of the Treaty OF
Versailles above mentioned embrace
the military clauses, the PREPARATION,
financial and economic clauses, the
parts relating to aerial navigation,
ports, waterways and railways guar.
antees and miscellaneous provisions.
1.-THE result is TO put the United
States on a footing with the other al.
lied and associated powers with re-
spect to all the rights defined in all
these clauses"