Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1920 — AMERICA IN PROTEST [ARTICLE]

AMERICA IN PROTEST

U. 8. CLAIMS PEACE TREATY HAS BEEN IGNORED. Supreme Council Auume* Work of Reparations Commission—Note to Allies Filed. Paris, Sept.'lo.— lt Is said here that William Boyden, American representative on the reparations commission, has presented to the allied governments through the head of that commission a communication from the American state department which may cause fundamental changes in European diplomatic methods. This communication Is said to affirm that the United States disapproves in principle of the method adopted by the allies in settling questions'of reparations within the supreme council and disapproves in particular of the agreements reached at Spa and Boulogne. The state department points out that machinery is specifically provided in the treaty of Versailles for the disposition of all such questions. This machinery Is the reparations commission. In the opinion of the United States government not only should these matters be taken immediately out of the hands of the supreme council and referred back to the reparations commission, but the latter body should be accorded full interpretative and revislonary powers regarding even such arrangements as those at Spa. It is understood that the Belgian government has Just presented a similar note. The French government is still deliberating, but it is highly probable that it will adhere entirely to the American point of view.