Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

parison between Article Ii of the pact and Article
of the Covenant OF the League of Nations Senator
Johnson for instance, in statement to Californians
made at San Francisco on Wednesday could not have
overlooked the difference between proposed par
tcipaton in treaty regarding affairs in which we
have a practical and vital interest in common with
three other great powers and proposed ?articpa-
ton in multitude of affairs involving the whole
world and in which we could have only idealistic
interest Therein is the wide difference between the
two pacts as they concern
Senator Lodge in presenting the treaty to the
conference limitation Of armament tried his best
to dispe the notion that about to enter need
lessly into entangling alliance. He plainly was
trying meet just such structures Senator John
uttered. There is no provision" he said, "for
the of force to carry any of the of the
agreement and military naval action turks any
where in the background or under of these
plain and direct clauses
Articles and II of the proposed treaty provide:
Article 1.-The high contracting parties agree as
between themselves to respect their rights in relation
to their insular possessions and nsuar domnions in
the regions Of the Pacific ocean. II there should de-
velop between any of the high contracting parties
controversy arising out of any Pacific question and
involving their said rights which is satisfactorily
settled by diplomacy and is likely to affect the har-
monious accord happily subsisting between them,
they shall invite the high contracting parties to
joint conference to which the whole subject will be
referred for consideration and adjustment.
Article H.-If the said rights threatened by
the aggressive action of any other power. the high
contracting parties shall communicate with one
other fully and frankly in order to arrive at
derstanding to the most efficient to be
taken jointly and separately. meet the exigencies
Of the particular situation.
How different Article x OF the Covenant:
The members of the league undertake to respect
and preserve against external aggression the
ritorial integrity and existing political independence
Of all members of the league. In of any such
aggression or in case of any threat danger
aggression the council shall advise upon the means
by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.
No sane man contend seriously that the same
mischief turks in Articles and II lay the pow
er to involve the United States in the tangled affairs
Of the world. Article would have committed this
country to respect and help against
from without the political independence and nteg-
rity Of all the members of the league now some two
more in number. Included In this number
political units and institutions in Central Europe
and elsewhere that not in favor OF the United
States because other provisions of the treaty of ver-
saies looked to be and have become sources of ap-
parently endless trouble. Strictly speaking the
United States has political interest in them
The proposed treaty has to do only with rights
bearing the nsular possessions and dominions Of
Ihe IOuI contracting powers IN the Pac1lc regions.
The United States has possessions there 1t has po-
htcal rights and direct economic interests there It's
rights and interests would unquestionaby suffer In
some degree from clash in that part of the world
even if they only in the analogous position Of
the innocent bystander" The United States has
substantial equity in the preservation of peace in
the Pacific and very lively interest in the ADJUST
men Of all possible controversies affecting these four
great powers by amicable means To procure that
kind of adjustment through frank statement and
friendly understanding is the motive underlying the
treaty which the senate is to be asked to ratify.
If any legal moral commitment of the United
States to force is to be read into the treaty at
all it is commitment the carrying out of which will
be in the preservation of American rights as well as
the rights of others and commitment that must
have the assent OF congress
BY joining in this treaty the United States will
not be joining police force for the keeping Of order
wherever throughout the world racial enmities and
take up arms against another
The proposed treaty is just such one as any
two nations might make with each other for an
agreement as to rights which might come into con-
flict and the United States has entered into many
such treaties Here there are four, instead of two
powers whose rights without an agreement con-
corning them might be brought into conflict 1t is
an agreement among the only powers affected in
the Pacific.
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