Show Other Points of View i SHOULD READ HEAD TIlE THE C CONSTITUTION We find Cind Dr Herbert Gibbons dibbons ibbons whoso profession sion slon wo we believe Is Is' that of historian and who has Indeed occupied the tho chair of ot history at Robert college in Constantinople Con Con- regretting failure of tho the Wilson covenant In n these curious words When President Wilson was vas permitted to si sign n tho the peace treaty the United States Slate became a I. I r. r in the arr arrangements ng for tor the reorganization of ot the world S Dr Gibbons Gibbons' has bas Spent apont much of or his life lito in In Europe and most most of ot his published books relate to European history and politics polities It is possible that he like somo some Europeans ma may have that Ignorance of ot the tho limits or tho the Presidents H treaty malting making power ower which Viscount Grey recognized in his ils famous Camous letter of or last January It was to make clear to England the equal partnership of or the tho United States Senate In all treaties that Gre Groy Grey said Let t us first get et rid of ot on one possible No o charge of ot bad ball faith or repudiating signatures c can n be bo brought wrought against the action of ot the tho United States Senate D By the American 4 Constitution it to is an independent nt body an independent element clement in the treaty power Its Ita refusal to ratify the treaty cannot annot expose either itself or ortho or ortho tho the country to a charge of oC bad faith or repudiation Wo do c that Lord Grey Gray found it hard bard work to come to this conclusion Ho Ito had only to read the Constitution and to assume that it St meant what whal it said Perhaps Dr Gibbons Gibbon's European research has left him no time to read the Constitution of ot his own country countr- Sun un and N N. N Y Herald |