Life — April 8, 1920 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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in that intelligentsious journal, glori- fies the fourteen Irreconcilables (one for each point) who kept the United States out of an alliance of moneys, just as a century ago England w kept out of an alliance of monarchs. William Hard thinks the Irreconcil- ables did a ve in it. great job. He glories Mr. Paul Cravath, at a meeting, says the Treaty must be rewritten more or less on the lines suggested by Mr Keynes, and Mr. Miller, who was legal adviser to the American band of treaty-makers, declares that the peace ¢ by the Treaty is a peace of equity and fairness and “the nearest approach to justice ever reached by humanity.” In another and unexpected quarter the Treaty finds an able de- fender. Vinton Greene devoted a page of the New York Times on March to the views of Mr. Keynes, whose book on the economic the Treaty has had the right of way in last quite Gene: ancis consequences of Treaty discussion for the two months, General Greene thinks well Mr. Keyne: writing, and nothing at book as a picce of il of it as an He de everything = Mr argument against the Treaty. pretty much Keynes said about Mr. Wilson, deties that Mr. Wilson Paris, denies that his mind was slow nics was bamboozled in declares that he sized up the sitution in Paris immediately, recognized in- stantly that without victory was out of the ques th on “anything like a peace tion,” and concentrated his strem efforts to intertwine the League of Nations inextricably with the terms of reparation and territorial adjustments We may like the League or not, Gen eral Greene says, “but it is interwoven in the Treaty, and Wilson did it ex- actly as he had planned.” A! L these wise men and experts are not wasting their valuable time dis- ussing a dead issue. The Treaty will get into the campaign unless it is settled sooner. If it stays in the case it is in now, somebody who wants it and be- lieves in the League of Nations will run against someone who doesn’t want it and believes that so far as we are concerned the League is good riddance. “nunen! MUDLIN’ AN’ PUPDLIN’ AROUND AN’ GITIIN’ NOWIERE KIND 0" REMINDS A FELLFR 0" CONGRESS.” And may the best man and the best cause win! But the for us to hold an election next Ne world is not going to wait vember. It is going right on doing what it can as it can and substituting fact for conjecture all over its surface What will have happened to Ireland, what to Syria, what to Turkey, what to Russia, before we zo to the polls is iar beyond prediction, and of ¢ cur belated entry into the | we ever go into it—will not undo has happened, That we are not in yet is itself a great fact. That we have kept out by a Senate representing a still smaller mi- heen minority’ of the nority of the people is also highly in- teresting, but nothing out of common, for countries are governed, and wars are made and peace is made by people who have the offices and the power. . “daw kut, etc HE Senate had power to reject the Treaty, but it has not power to and some- out of make peace with Germany thing curious may inability. It has confirmed Mr. Colby as Sec- retary of State, much to the relief of who want pass- come that intending travelers ports. It has also confirmed Mr. Charles R Crane as Ambassador to € which is highly interesting in view of Mr Crane's former experience in being chosen as our representative in China when Mr. Knox State, and Knox. Mr about Secretary of called back by Mr Crane has deep concern was being \sia, east and west, and an un usual gift of fellowship with her all the China peoples. In him Orient has will see in his ap friend, and pointment a token of friendshiy And Mr. M practised by his service in Turkey it genthau, an astie man, the handling of diplomatic difficulties. suceceds Mr. Fletcher as Ambassador to Mexico, where, possibly, something of importance can be accomplished in Mr. Wilson to leave Mex that she can be Te! 2 year, For ico in such a case lone would be one of the considerable chievements of his presidential carcer He has won for that country a chance to have a revolution and get over it without interference. Cireumstances have greatly helped him, just as they have helped Russia to experiment in a similar way on a much very greater scale nw if Mexico will only make od recovery while she still has a ance, it will be another case of the vis medicatrix naturae contusing the doctors As for Russia, things begin to sound as though her case was improving also. To her, it may be that Senate's long delay has been uscful our comicbooks.com