OCR Text |
Show Boise Merchant and Red Cross Official Gives Views After Return to U.S. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 23. The treaty or Versailles, ratified by many of the great powers that are party to it, stands as written, no matter what action the United States takes. It is considered a completed chapter in Europe. This is the opinion of Lieutenant J. Allison Al-lison Cain, prominent Boise merchant, who today returned from overseas service ser-vice after a year with the Red Cross. "It is difficult to understand in European Euro-pean countries why all this fuss about the signing of the peace treaty," said Mr. Cain. "So far as they are concerned, the incident is closed. They take as accepted ac-cepted and settled the drafting of the peace pact at Paris. "The treaty has been ratified by France, Kngland and Germany. It is felt that if France, the country most concerned, con-cerned, is satisfied, other countries ought to be. Whether the United States ratifies rati-fies the treaty or not, it a completed chapter so far as Europe is concerned. "With regard to the league of nations, there is a well-grounded belief among the people in Europe that any document that will prevent future wars, if even for a year, will be satisfactory. The people there have had their fill of wars and do not want to see another one. One hears more about the covenant in the United States than in Europe." |