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AUGUST 8, 1919.
PRESIDENT FRAMES TRAP
If Washington dispatches are ac
curate, the President, still continuing
his secret negotiations, has proposed
a compromise to the Republican sen
ators. Still relying on a phrase rather
than a principle, using a clever
diplomatic formula rather than a clear
plan, he suggests that the senate
ratify the treaty with “interpretative
reservations.”
Inasmuch as it has been frequently!
suggested that the democrats agree I
to the republican changes be-j
cause these changes embodied !
phrases similar to that devised by the
President, it is essential to distin
guish between this suggestion and his.
“These ic-servai ions,” it was said,‘em
body just ihose assurances which the
democrats have been giving us as
their interpretations of the League of
Nations covenant.”
The friends of the President have j
a right to interpret his formula “in
terpretative reservations, ’ and they j
show that he wants simply interpre-1
tation and not reservation.
If the senate intends to give the
treaty a specific meaning as its in
terpretation it must make reserva
tions which shall become a part of
the treaty. The democrats have said
already that the republican reserva
tions are nothing more than demo
cratic interpretations. If so, there
should be no objection to making the
republican definitions a part of the
treaty.
When Great Britain made a reser
vation that she must have the big
gest navy, no matter what measure
of disarmament were ordered by the
League of Nations, it was something
more than a mere interpretation. The
United States Senate, if it wishes to
give an interpretation of the treaty
which shall be binding, must embody
its reservations in the treaty. As we
said last week:
“Once again it is simply embodying
in the treaty the interpretation to j
which the democrats adhere and to
which, supposedly, all advocates of
the league, here and abroad, adhere.”
If the democrats are sincere they
will vote to make the reservations
a part of the treaty, for in that way
they will show the courage of their
conviction that the reservations do
not really change or modify the
treaty but simply expound its mean
ing.
We suspect that the uhnculty lies j
in the fact that the democrats do not
really believe in their own interpre
tations. They say the treaty means
certain things, but they are unwilling
to put the definitions in the treaty
because they are far from sure that
the covenant means what they say it
does. To obtain ratification they are
willing to use whatever alluring lan
guage is necessary to persuade their
antagonists.
The President himself has seemed
to give an alarming interpretation
of the treaty.
Not long before the President left
for Europe he said: “Special alli
ances have been the prolific cause in
the modern world of the plans and
passions that produce war.” And
yet he proposes a special treaty of
alliance for the United States, Great
Britain and France, a treaty that
looks forward to war, which binds
the United States to wage war in a
certain specific circumstances—an
attack by Germany on France.
If that special alliance be not an
interpretation of the spirit and pur
pose of the League of Nations, what
is it?
On the occasion to which we al
lude the President also said: “There
can be no alliance within the general
League of Nations.” Arrived in Eng
land he said: “The United States will
enter into no special arrangements
or understandings with particular na
tions.”
In these words the President was
repudiating the old European system
of balance of power, an,d he employed
these words because Premier Clemen
ceau had frankly expressed a pref
erence for the European system. Cle
menceau declared for special alliance
and won. President Wilson com
promised.
The point we make is this: The
proposal for a special alliance shows
that the league covenant is really a
league for war, that President Wilson
so interprets it. He wanted France
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to understand that the compact was
so truly a covenant for war that
France had no need of fearing that
it would fail to give her the neces
sary protection—warlike protection.
But because Clemencau persisted in
his fears the President offered an in
terpretation. It took the form of a
proposal for a special alliance as a
consideration for his support of the
League of Nations and the President
surrendered. Japan demanded Shan
tung and its 40,000,000 inhabitants as
consideration for her support of the
League of Nations, and the President
surrendered.
In its present form the treaty with
the covenant included, binds us, ap
parently, to give up a part of our
sovereignty to the league. Apparent
ly it binds us to let the league inter
pret the Monroe doctrine; to go to
war whenever the executive council
decides that we must to preserve the
territorial integrity and existing po
litical independence of any member
nation; to give the league the right
to interfere in our domestic problems
if they threaten to cause a war.
The President, we are informed,
wishes to compromise with the Sen
ate by “interpretative reservations”
which shall say that the apparent
meaning is not the real meaning, but
he does not want the reservations in
the treaty. He wants the interpreta
tions in such a form that the execu
tive council of the league can con
sider them obiter dicta, mere “scraps
of paper.” The republican senators,
on the other hand, will not be satis
fied with a political commentary or
editorial on the league, but will in
sist that the reservations shall notify
other nations that we agree to the
reaty only in a certain sense. The
Senate would define the contract and
say to the other member nations,
“This is our interpretation of the va
rious articles and we sign the con
tract on the understanding that it is
also your interpretation; if the con
tract means anything else we repu
diate it.”
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