Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — ENEMY NOT FAVORED [ARTICLE]

ENEMY NOT FAVORED

POLK PUNCTURES BERLIN HOPES IN PEACE SPLIT. U. 8. Envoy Telia Lersner That Genmany Must Observe Armistice and Pact Agreements. Parte, Dec. 6.—Frank L. Polk, head of the United States delegation to the peace conference, summoned Kurt Lersner, chief of the German representatives at Versailles, and told him that Germany should net Interpret as being to her favor any delay that might be encountered In ratifying the Versailles treaty at Washington, according to newspapers here. "If there can be in the United States several ways .of understanding the treaty,” Mr. Polk Is quoted as telling Herr Lersner, “there are not two ways of understanding the obligations Incumbent upon Germany nor the affection binding the United States and her allies.* Terms of the tripartite treaty guaranteeing France against unprovoked attack by Germany- will be carried out by Great Britain, regardless of whether the United States, the other participant, ratifies the pact, according to newspapers here, which state that negotiations to this end have been almost completed between the French and British governments.