The Washington times., 1922-03-10


and II the White House and the
an amendment UP to. the Senate. q
considerable number of Senators
now In opposition to the treaty
would feel that the treaty had been
rendered harmless. Also q consider
able number of Senators wavcring
between opposing and favoring the
treaty would waver quite definitely
toward favoring 1t.
That this would happen will be-
come clear II the situation in the
Senate il examined from the In.
side.
The possibility of defeating this
treaty depends on its remaining in
compatible with the ideals OF the
cannot be defeated without the help
cratic votes. These votes cannot
be secured In sufficient numbers
II the treaty In made to correspond
to the ideals Of the League Of Ma
tions.
The opposition to the treaty
among the Democrats In the SEN
ate IL centered around the idea
which IL embodied in Senator Rob
inson's reservation. This ressrva-
ton Is essentially the same thing
a. the amendment discussed at -<he
beginning Of this dispatch. 1t aims
to include all Far Eastern powers
in the conferrings and communica-
tings called for by the treaty. II
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into those conferrings and conf
municatings when the interests of
China are being discussed.
In other words the Robinson
reservation attempts to set up In the
Far East a sort Of far eastern society
Of nations or league Of nations in
place OF an alliance Of great powers.
the treaty, the Democrats will have
won a great victory. They will have
changed the treaty from q league
among the great to a league among
both great and small. among both
strong and weak. in the Far East.
But when they had won that
victory, their principal reason for
opposition to the treaty would have
disappeared. They have no Gbjec-
tions tmost of them) to foreign en-
tanGlements" II the "entangiements"
include all the nations concerned
Their objection Ii to an "entangle-
ment" among the great and strong
for dominating and coercing the
small and weak. Once the treaty
had been remade from q far eastern
exclusive alliance into a far eastern
Democratic league, the votes against
the treaty on the Democratic side Of
the Senate would begin to diminish
Thus the Administration now
stands in precisely the Same sit
uation in which the Wilson Admin
istration stood when certain con-
cessions to the Senators opposing
the League of Nations would have
carried It to victory in the Senate.
II the Administration today should
expand the four-power pact Into
a pact including all Far Eastern
powers II might split the Senatorial
opposition into fragments and put
the treaty through the Senate with
ont any further important trouble.
TWO facts, however. make any such
psliSy on the part. of. the. Admins.
fi'attsn. quite. Improbable. One Il
that when any Standardization .rc-
berts Il treaty to the Senate II re
,gAr6s the. treaty al. being a. dpcu,
-Ihsnt already perfected to the point
n, .sAnStity IT. would usually
TSll5sr, SSe te' treaty defeated than
Waks any, isenuihely" .fmRQr4al1t
ShNyiEc htui Il. Thus, from the be-
RMhi1k OF Sdr history to date Ad.
5ninis tiops bayet renlIsed TO ehaA,s
tteatfey. land 'hhve';seen them de-
fsate6 This ,is, O.. pecessarys Sopse-
giyence ,6f CUR form of soyef9nenf:
m;Nhle& tie fsgislatiye bfanch Sf
SbetJnHtf sSf tile head Of the. execu;
arSS S,a 2, Yaam ;tss .etf|sy ,GsysyTnmsnt Wy
= me- d1Asr' reasoh " that tie Ad-
n,iniSfSa3i6n win .hesftate- to = ap-
proach the British on the sqhjsat of
CHANGING the treaty and the British
viii nesfAte to appfoach the Ad-
infnisSratien: THE TACT 'is, that, to
ddy.l ds alsb during the conference,
the. British, win 60 to almost any
length to do what the American
Goyeramept wants To Rave. done, II
usSly, the american Goyernmept van
sYprss, nj views. 'and press, iss
yifNe ~ . 80. 'll'"h,,>.-t,
S,ssls tie IL : sL@msricsn @ GoyefniShs,snnt does
not sreshiyswppt an ALLIANCE of st4at
Sewers In, thS PacifcI ar IT, pfefers
,S1lf6tS m 'ehs4tehEnt hstwSehl ap
$hespdx1k1 In die Pacific and In. the
pSH RA&t fdtS sipnpie oohferring and
e6RtiHAidetJnk regarding. dangS<s
to- peace in-fhe Pacific sAd in thu
1s Eaff N from mani; III: % t,ssls s.te!
'Giying II. tho color. 81 an alliance
and, wants TO put IN words making
IL simply, the meays of a better and
more rapid interchange. Of current
International views between ali the
.p6yesrs. existing In the Pacific and
lnh the. Far. East. II could make its