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Show AWAITS DECISION. Senatorial statements that President Wilson is engaged in committing the United States to a league of nations policy from which there can be no escape, es-cape, once the covenant is accepted in Paris, are disposed of by the authoritative authorita-tive announcement that the president intends to defer any action relative to American participation in the league until the senate of the United States has acted upon the proposal and the American position concerning the league has been definitely established. No appointments of any kind will be made until the senate finally acts, according ac-cording to this "authoritative" statement state-ment from Paris. That is to say, such work as is being done on the league of nations is wholly tentative, so far as the United States is concerned. The position of the president presi-dent is that whilo there is every hope and expectation on his part that the covenant will be ratified by the senate as a part of the general peace treaty, there is no purpose to anticipate this result or in any way commit the United States to ratification. This statement, which undoubtedly has the indorsement of the president, ought to clarify matters in the immediate imme-diate neighborhood of the United States senate, and especially in the vicinity of the group of senators who are opposing the league of nations in general and tho president's supposed plan to commit 'he nation in advance of senatorial action in particular. The senate will have the opportunity to pass on the covenant as an instru-' ment presented for American approval, not something to be accepted as a fact accomplished. This bit. of information from Paris ought to serve to reassure the gentlemen who are conjuring up bogeys which have no existence. |