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Show WILSON Fl! FOR UNALTERED PACT DECLARES RESERVATIONS ARE IN EFFECT NULLIFICATIONS OF TREATY ARTICLES. Makes Statement in Letter to Senator Hitchcock That There is No Escaping Escap-ing the Moral Obligation Expressed in Positive Terms in Article Ten. Washington. I'n'sl(l;iit Wilson reunited re-united for I temnera t ic senators, on March H, Ills opposition lo any peace trealy reservations which wonlil weak-en weak-en Hie full force of article-X or materially mate-rially impair provisions of tin league Covenant. Wllhont. saying sieclfically w hat j qualification lie won 1 1 1 or wonM no! ucccpl, he wrote lo Senator Hitchcock uilmin isi ra I ion leader, that almost all rescr a I ions he hail heard suggested were "in effect virtually nil 1 1 i f ica 1 ions" of the trealy articles to which they up-plied. up-plied. "I hear of reserva I Ions anil mild reservationlsts," the letter milled, "lint 1 cannot understand the difference between be-tween a nnllifier and n mild nnllifier." . Discussing article ten, the iii'esident wrote that there was "no escaping the rioral obligations expressed In positive terms in this article," though there could he no ohjeclion to explaining in mi Interpreliition the const it nl ioiml methods by which such nn obligation would have to he nullified. The "very heart" of the covenant, he reiterated, would he imperiled hy weakening article ar-ticle ten. The letter was writ Ion in response to a request that he confer with Senator Sena-tor Simmons of North Carolina, in charge for the I einoorntic side of the Semite in current negotiations for a compromise. |