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Way for Other Pacts
Cleared in Senate
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will be difficult to get the Senate as "A
whole to do what the committee re I.
fused TO do.
There vii! be n long debate ON the
other treaties, especially on the forti-
fcatiOns provisions of the naval treaty.
1t will be urged that these clauses arc
much to favorable to Japan: in effect
barring us out Of the Eastern Pacific
and making that part of the ocean a
japanese lake. but naval limitation is
so popular and an agreement not to
fortify Is so essential condition of
naval imitation. that critics are NOT
likely to make much hcadway.
The significance of the vote on the
pact--is that isolation asa policy in
the Senate is dead. The pact is n
complete departure from our traditional
policy of staying at home, Yet it
went through with a few votes TO spare.
And when you deduct from the
twenty-seven negative votes the Demo-
cratic votes which support the League
of Nations and opposed the pact mere.
~ because it did not 60 far enough in
the direction of international 20 oper-
alton, you have left only ten or n
dozen votes at most which are irrccOn-
cilably isOlationist.
by accepting the pact the Senate is
definitely committed now TO a policy
OF cooperating with other Powers TO
secure tn" peace of the world. The
united states enters into Il small aSso-
citation of nations for limited purpoSe.
From this point it ,S bur few stems
to cooperation in Europe and to nl-
most as complete q break with the
American past M President Wilson, :
League of Nations contemplated
Nation May Go Further
The whole movement which resultod
In the defeat of the League covenant
and the Versailles Treaty has crum.
bled. The Four Power pact was it,
last stand. When the other treaties are
ratified 1t may be- possible for presi.
dent Harding to get through the Sen.
ate an act providing for seating an
american representative in the German
Reparations Commission.
but no attempt is likely to be mndc
until the treaties are ulSposcd of for
fear of complicnring the situation with
respect to them. The disadvantages nm.
der which this country labors with no
representative in tn" Preparations Com.
mission Will become II powerful argu-
try Is definitely headed toward co opcr
alton.
What has happened j. that rcspon.
sibilfy has had II SOLDERING effect ,,,"u
the Senate as II result of the success
ful fight upon President Wilson and
MS League and treaty and of Presi-
dent Hard'ng'S yielding with regard +,
the BOrah reservation to Mr.. Hughes
separate peace treaty with GERMANY
The senate has acquired an unprcr
edcnted authority over the foreipu
policy of the United States. Nr
Harding in transmitting the Washing
ron treaties Tor ratification told the
senate scrupulouS consideration Oh U>
views had guided the drafting of the
Four Power pact and the other agree
ments. All had been prepared Within
the lines of the foreign policy AS indi.
Gated by the Senate in its rejection ur
the Versailles Treaty and in its an,pnu,
ment of Mr.. Hughes German Treaty
And he did not in the least cXaggeratr
when he said this.
The Senate was forced thus 70 No.
cept the Harding Hughes trcancs. q,
by rejecting chem, virtually to admit
that 1t could not make its intentions
sufficiently clear for an Executive and
his Secretary of State to follow them,
with the result that negotiations with
foreign nations would become impos-
sible.
The Senate had to ratify the treaties
or cause breakdown of the treaty
making powers of the Government. For
ms reason the strength of the -Four
Power pact wns always really greater
than the vote, ~ to ~. showed.
There was never ANY danger that the
yenste would itselF become q totally
eaWorkeble element IN the Govcrnmeltl