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Show WILSON FIRM FOR UNALTERED PACT DECLARES RESERVATIONS ARB IN EFFECT NULLIFICATIONS OF TREATY ARTICLES. Makes Statement in Letter to SenatoV Hitchcock That There is No Escaping Escap-ing the Moral Obligation Expressed in Positive Terms in Article Ten. Washington. President Wilson restated re-stated for Democratic senators, on March 8, his opposition to 'any peace treaty reservations which would weaken weak-en the full force of article X or materially mate-rially impair provisions of the league covenant. Without saying specifically what qualification he would or would not accept, he wrote to Senator Hitchcock administration leader, that almost all reservations he had heard suggested were "in effect virtually nullifications" of the treaty articles to which they ap-" ap-" plied. "I hear of reservations and mild reservationists." the letter added, "but I cannot understand the difference between be-tween a nullil'ier and a mild nullifier." Discussing article ten, the president wrote that there was "no escaping the moral obligations expressed in positive terms in this article," though there could he no objection to explaining in an interpretation the constitutional methods by which such an obligation would 'have to be nullified. The "very heart" of the covenant, he reiterated, would be imperiled by weakening article ar-ticle ten. The letter was written in response to a request that he confer with Senator Sena-tor Simmons of -North Carolina, in charge for the Democratic side of the senate in current negotiations for a compromise. |