The American delegates, however, dissented from the emend part of
the Report. They propose that there should be penalties only for breaches of international Conventions, and not for particular deeds which have offended against the general moral sense of the world. Unexpectedly enough, the American argu- ment as regards the Kaiser's immunity develops into something like an aseartion of the Divine right of Kings ! On the whole, readers of this summary would come to the conclu- sion that the Kaiser would escape any worse fate than being brought before the Peace Conference and, in the soldier's phrase, "told off properly." The Times of Wed- nesday, however, announced that the Drafting Committee of the Peace Treaty have drawn up certain clauses for insertion in the Treaty, and these put quite a new aspect on the ease.
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