Show Ir r. r lF Buffeting Shantung I Hp T HE Republican majority of the senate foreign relations comM committee com- com M R is going forward quite merrily amending the peace tr treaty aty with apparent total disregard of what the result may be Of course the committees committee's actions is not final it only recommends mends ends l action and perhaps the senate as a whole will show better judgment than has been evidenced in the committee room i The first amendment had to do with Shantung The committee committee committee com com- proposes that the rights in Shantung formerly held by Germany Ger Ger- rr many ny shall be transferred to China instead of Japan The ethics o the proposal is commendable but the reality is political bun- bun be It is all very good for the senate to say say that by rights Shantung should go to China and such a thought could appropriately appropriately W tely be expressed in a resolution resolution but but it ft has no place in the therea treaty rea r. r I Suppose for instance that the senate approves approve the proposed change and the United States negotiates a new treaty with Germ Germany Germany Ger Ger- m many ny in which Germany agrees to surrender her Shantung rights to China What of it Who gets Shantung Why Japan of ofu bourse u se and all we will have done will be to stir up a fuss that night might culminate in in war gf x Great Britain France and Italy have said that the Shantung r s shall all go to Japan Germany has agreed ed to it Germany is not fc t in iri a position to care what happens to the Chinese territory band land she might agree to tJ a United States treaty saying Shantung should go to China And is the United States then going to join I with it China Chin in a fight against Japan Great Britain France and I l to wrest Shantung from the Tokio government No t 11 lately tely- tely no i s. s The The committee committee ommittee has as also voted to strike from the treaty all p pf provision vis Or for American merica participation on commissions vested with I t je o B power w of carrying out the detailed terms of the peace pact If fulls change is approved by the senate America will be deprived of numerous numerous t u indu industrial trial a advantages and and be be e. e denied the the privilege of 5 seeing t that at the the lofty purposes for which this country entered the i j war are carried to fruition g The h committees committee's purpose seems to change hanie the treaty willy hilly and andt to mess mess up lip things things' so th that t we we Ie shall have political turmoil ii a instead tead of Cf world peace I |