Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1919 — WILSON WILL NOT GIVE TREATY [ARTICLE]

WILSON WILL NOT GIVE TREATY

To U. S. Senate Until Document Is Signed by the Huns. Paris, June 7. —The American delegation to the peace conference is apparently firm in its decision not to authorize the publication of the German peace treaty until it is signed, and not to communicate the official text in its present form even to the United States senate. A member of the American delegation in discussing the senate’s complaint concerning publication of the treaty in Germany and charges that copies were in the hands of New York bankers said the delega-| tion had not violated the pledge made to other powers not to give out the treaty until it is completed and will not do so. ' lHe added that so far as he knew Germany had not been requested to keep the treaty secret, as such a request to an opponent would not be in conformity with accepted diplomatic practice. The delegate in replying to an inquiry why the covenant of the league of natiens had been published, eaid that while the covenant was part of the treaty it does not actually deal with the terms of peace and consequently is essentially of a different character.