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S Should Renounce denounce Claims in Favor of By Associated Press y ASHINGTON Aug 29 W WASHINGTON w Declaring that the peace rc ty y cannot be enforced but v cell ay the foundation for ceu- ceu unes anes of or blood letting Senator of Pennsylvania a Republican em er of the foreign com- com l and former secretary of ot state the senate today that the he United United Mates tates tite's should decline to become a aart art to the settlement effected at ata a ties es and should negotiate a a. sep- sep rate fM peace peace with Germany Ia In its its hard and cruel terms he heser hesser ser ed the tho treaty imposed on GerIan Gerany Ger- Ger Ian any penalties which violate flaw w and engender strife He de- de lared ared there was no reason wh why the States tates should project itself into Ie d lingers dangers of such a situation 1 1 think we we should renounce he heL L d ip il favor of Germany any and andI I o aims Kims for indemnity and see that re Ie credit for what we renounce REATY ROBS ROSS CHINA I ee e- e eno no reason why we wee should bert be belr lr rt s to imposing upon Germany a eaty eat whose terms our negotiators S i she he will not be able to meet a eaty that robs our ancient friend ii ilna in a way disapproved by our g a treaty that lays the theun un inflation tion for centuries of oC bloodletting tO Y h we should not be drawn treaty that contrary to our own fails alls to fix the amount of de y to b be he e paid leaving that vast e cation estion to the w whim Im of a majority r f COmmission on reparations a II I naty eaty predicated ted upon the assertion 1 strIcken and helpless World rei re- re J I i re our counsel and support but to the b beneficiaries the decision t to the measure and character of o benefactions they are to receive treaty r ty that with ominous words pre- pre Csur In the eruptions suppressed volcanic world condi- condi ars nsf a treaty that would require us und underwrite all the regional under- under between nations recognized the league most of which are based I on oppression 1 of weak nations many w are as yet secret and uncloSEd unclosed unclosed un un- I closed and when disclosed might mig V versus to lo acts of Injustice similar hat in in which the president felt I self compelled to acquiesce in the Olof Shantung PARATE RATE PEACE Senator Knox said a state of peace u ily would be established in the nd as soon as three of the great vers had ratified the treaty andL and L t he 6 United States should make makeI I town yn peace status complete by a current resolution of congress ss Declaring rIng the foreign relations com com- lt it e ad tried in vain to get im- im tant data relating to the treaty said the people at last laste e m e waking g to the true issue as the ts is bout the Versailles negotiations ted ked gout out Little LItle by little he continued they a divulgence of the facts d with the treaty and they 1 hope finally to see the whole Ih great gaunt aunt tragedy i into which whom they had charged with Continued on page 1 11 i KNOX RAPS Continued from page 1 protecting them were about to betray them WHY THESE What is It about these things that the people cannot know What Is there to hide from them Must we take lake this thing as the German people must take it and unseen Are we to be no more advantaged d than our fallen enemies Calling attention that Russia was not included in the peace penco settlement he continued Think you Germany smarting Germany smarting and staggering under the terms of this treaty will supinely rest content with the dole of grace and sufferance we weare weare weare are vouchsafing her That people will no more cease to plot and plan to re recover recover recover re- re cover their former high estate than did Satan plunged into the abysmal depths of hell Stripped of its idealistic phrases Mr Knox said the treaty really was but butan butan butan an alliance among five great powers against whom Germany would try to bring a stronger alliance The real Interest Interest in interest In- In terest of France he said was in gainIng gaining gaining gain gain- ing the friendship and not the enmity of the German Cerman people The instrument before us he said is not the treaty but the truce of Versailles GERMANY ROBBED It takes Germanys Germany's territory European European European Euro Euro- and foreign wi compensation tion it takes from her practically aUf all aU Of f her ocean shipping and a large portion portion portion por por- tion of her inland vessels x it deprives her of all special f benefits of treaties and conventions conventions- it takes her cables it compels her to supply large quantities quantities ties of raw materials it internationalizes international International- izes her great river systems and throws them open to traffic of all nations on ona ona ona a national basis as if they were the high seas it opens her coastwise shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping to all nations it compels her to grant exceptional import and export privileges and to accept important re restrictions re- re it closes out German Interests interests interests inter Inter- ests in practically the whole civilized world it closes out the Interests of that same world in Germany TOUGH ON Having done all this it assesses against her provisionally with a stipulation stipulation lation laUon permitting an a debt of one hundred and twenty billion bUlion gold marks which is in addition to the property restored In kind and to the value of the boats gold and securities delivered it makes males her responsible for these damages Inflicted not only by herself herselt but by her allies alUes and even by bythe bythe bythe the allied and associated powers themselves themselves themselves them them- selves with a a. list of Items which includes In Includes Includes In- In some admittedly contrary to the rules of international law hitherto existing ex- ex sting finally and in addition she is is' is compelled to answer to her own na nationals nationals na- na for the value of the property na-I na taken by the allied and associated pow pow- ers The United States is bound up in every everyone one of the tho obligations and duties Incident to the enforcement of these terms with the great responsibilities a attached thereto |