Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-05-14 | Page 32 | Sinister Interests Backing League Reed Asserts

INTERESTS INISTER BACKING LEAGUE REED t REED ASSERTS I x Mi sour Senator Bitterly r f 1 I Assails Pact in In Plea 1 f for Knox Plan reV J Vast 14 St Stand and WASHINGTON May 14 HV Vast sinister financial int interests rests are at work on on Will and tl I as a's and other l Republican ad them to ad adopt pt a halt l l way Y plank lank on n the league of or nations at Chicago Senator Reed Democrat Democrat t or of f Missouri u J declared in the senate senate- this ra afternoon er n. n IT Re Reed dl attacked attacked the presidents president's i ref re re- re Oregon gent f ent 5 gon letter in which he again condemned t condemned the Lodge reservations and urged the unqualified acceptance of ot the league of ot nations covenant In urging the passage of or the Knox r peace resolution Reed sarcastically re referred re- re erred to the it by Senator Senator Sen- Sen ator Hitchcock Democrat of or Nebraska fan tan administration spokesman as resulting re- re suiting from the mountain having labored labored la- la bored and brought forth a mouse m viewed with al alarm rm f 5 it seems to be by the syndicate of ot European finan- finan I cl ciers rs said Senator Reed who want their bonds guaranteed with the blood and nd treasure of ot the American people y the he- business buccaneers who are greedily contemplating the exploitation of or Europe Europ under the peace treaty with chagrin and disappointment by Euro- Euro statesmen who contemplated the United United States States assuming an Armenian m mandate for the maintenance In Armenia Armenia Armenla Ar- Ar menia menla of ot a a. quarter of a million AmeriCan Amen Amerl- can troops to hold back the hordes of or Turkey Turkey and protect newly acquired British Interests in Mesopotamia 1