The daily times., 1922-01-04
AN ALLIANCE MUST
HAVE AP|ACE FOR
ALL THE NATIONS
MAY DEFEAT TREATY
The Revival of Woodrow Will
sons Doctrines is Being No
ticed Among Democrats, a
Paragraph of Wilson's Fam
ous Manchester Speech is
Being Circulated.
! DEFEAT TREATY
(By David Lawrence.)
Copyright, 1921, by The Daily

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Washington, Jan. 3.-An alliance
of all or none This is the slogan
which reflects the attitude of a BIZ
partisan coalition whose principal OBJ
any treaties which set up the United
States as a potential foe or opponent
of any group of nations. The issue
is not to- be as had been supposed
the phraseology of the treaties now
being drafted at the Arms conference
but the broad principle. Senator
Borah on the Republican side has
fired the opening gun by demanding
that the United States shall not enter
an alliance with three other nations
for the protection of certain rights in
the Pacific as against another group
of nations which are admittedly
weak. On the Democratic side the in
fluence of former President Wilson is
beginning to be felt in the revival of
the doctrines he preached on his first
trip to Europe. A paragraph from the
by Mr.. Wilson as a reply to Premier
Clemenceau' first thrust against the
league of nations idea is being cir
culated among Democratic Senators
who are being urged to use the issue
of balances of, power as a means of
fighting the new treaty policy on
which the United States has embark
ed. =,
There is a curious parallel between
the situation that exists today at the
Arms Conference as between Premier
BRAND on the one hand and the
delegations on the
other, and the situation that prevail
ed in January 1919 when Woodrow
Wilson had the support of Prime
Minister Lloyd George and the Brit
ish delegation and found himself OPP
vas demanding a defensive alliance
as the best insurance of pea e IN Eu-
rope. Mr.. Wilson fought the idea but
finally agreed to submit to the Amer
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lit would unquesticnably be rejected
as inconsistent with American traci
Ition which has always opposed spec
Iial alliances of military character
The news today from Europe, par
lticular1y the interview given %.
iPremier BRAND to London Dali.
Mail correspondent in Paris, reveal
THAT the French have not given VI
hope of getting a defensive allianc
With England as against Germany an
THAT if they get that alliance they will
lrecede from their extreme naval de
mands and "p1ay BALI at the Wash
lington conference. The British thu
far have given pledges in speeches @
their officials and statesmen but hav
. not been ready to write their prom
lises into a treaty. This, the Frenc
believe, is essential. In the desire fC
that guarantee as against Germa
> aggression may be found the key
French policy at the Washington col
ference. So far as the United State
lis concerned, it is not a party
the negotiations as it has been mad
kably plain to the Frenc
THAT America will not enter aEy tr
ipsrtite agreement for the preserv;
ton of peace in Europe. This r:
4. aused a certain resentment in F'rent
circles where the argument is mat
that if the United States is wiling
enter a four-party treaty to preser'
the rights of European and Amerlc;
Of nations seven thousand miles fro
ID the homeland, what possible objet
1e ion can there be to the making of
y similar entente for the preservati'
pt lof peace in Europe, only three tho
re sand miles away.
re But the Democrats controlled
We the Wilson influence are prepari
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