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Show HOT ATTACK IS I IDE 1 TREATY I "Completely Destroys Charter of Peace With Freedom" j Fletcher Asserts SHADE GAP. Pa.. Aug. 7. Attack-Ing Attack-Ing article 21 of the league of nations' covenant as a betrayal rather than a " safeguard of the Monroe doctrine, Henry P. Fletcher, former ambassador to Mexico, In an address today at the county reunion, declared that thu 1 Democratic party through its endorse- i ment of the league covenant was seek -ing to set up "a vain, visionary and vanishing scheme of world regulation and Interference based on an arbi- iB trary disposition of the lands and peo- jH plea of the earth." ' The treaty of Versailles, as signed W. by the president, submitted to th senate nnd endorsed by tho L' mo-oratlo mo-oratlo national conventlOsV' tLe for-mer for-mer ambassador asserted, beoiutely 'H and completely destroys the govern- jH ment chart and charter of peace with jH freedom, which we venerate under J the name of the Monroe doctrine. i IN OPPOSITION. "The Monroe doctrine forbids Am-erican Am-erican participation in tho political affairs of Europe. The treaty re-qulre9 re-qulre9 It. "The Monroe doctrine forbids out- Wl side interference In American af-fairs af-fairs The covenant provides for It. "Article 21 of tho treaty of Ver-sallies,' Ver-sallies,' M r Fletcher continued, "is the famous article of the covenant which we were told would safeguard ' and protect the Monroe doctrine. There are two versions of tho treaty, one in French and the other In Eng-Ush. Eng-Ush. Both arc authentic. Apparently the French text of this article was pr. pared for European and the Eng-Huh Eng-Huh text for home consumption. DIFFERENCE I N TEXT. "Tho English text of Article 21 " Nothing In this covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional un-dcratandlngs un-dcratandlngs like the Monroe doctrine for securing the maintenance of Wt peace.' H "A literal translation of the Fronch text of the same articie, however, reads: H i nt.-rnational engagements, such as arbitration treaties and regional mWM ententes like tho Monroe doctrine, which assure the maintenance of Wt pe u -. are not considered as lncom-patlble lncom-patlble with any of thu dispositions of the present pact.1 "But both of these resolutions or reservations of the Monroe doctrine aro only makc-bellcvo sugar-coated dope They do not safeguard or pre-servo pre-servo at all. They betray it." nn |