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Show INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IS VERY SERIOUS T WTTwIVT XT . "T 1 . , , 1 .1 r I Lj ; in in , iuv. It - ll ,v m I ll we an ficult to exaggerate 'he gravity of tre International situation, said Lord Rob ert Cecil in the houe of commons today to-day -while the tr, nmeoi's Russian policy wa under debate Ii was impossibl . eiiher the se nousness from the United States, In said, in referring to h'' cJon of ttc i senate on the Oerma.i peace tre?ty. II-did II-did not desire to express an opinion of thp legitimacy of tl e senate's action1 from the American viewpoint, be de dared, but the re.x. ratiors that had been provisionally accepted, amour t almost to the repudluion of the covenant, cove-nant, and th" repudiation of the cove nant made the rpudia;.on of the treaty. "At this time," s-iid Lord Robert, "nothing is to be expectod by a long period of negotiations and the oonsibh-! Ity of further rejection v. hen the negotiations nego-tiations are concluded. Wo desire American co-operation and Americas loading, but If the United States d Cld'es not to share in this great inter national effort, we must go on and the burden would be the greater upon lis and the other nations." t;o |