Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-18
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER
STARTS CONTROVERSY
Mr.. Hughes Inccnsed Because He
Was Not Invited 10 Confer
cncc at Versailles.
DoMINloNs SHOULD BE HEARD
Australian Declares His People Will
Never Consent to Treat Germany
Like Other Nations, as Demanded
by President Wilson.
ny T.. e.. FITZHAMMoN

LONDON. November Recommending
on the public imb-oglio raised by Will
lam Morris Hughes. Prime Minister OF
Australia. because Australia was not
represented AZ the Versailles confer
oncc. and with regard to President Will.
SINS fourteen peace principles, chan
made THIS statement to mo to-day:
"In our view. there is no real con-
hcction between the peace conference
and the armistice terms for the rea-
clause; everything the allies and the
oominions ever asked can be claimed
undc- these conditions.
The British government has given
definite promise that its overseas DO
minions will have a fun share in the
peace negotiations.
Il cannot go into details as TO why
the Australian Prime Minister was not
invited to the Versailles conference"
The controversy was opened by Pre-
me. hughes ', IN n ringing speech at the
Clause Cof President Wilson's
fourteen points, deprives MS of our
quentiy. in the name of the Australian
people, protest most cmphatically
against tina, clause.
President Wilson made it clear that
he power to discriminate between
friends and enemies has gone forever
do not think the American people in
thus pcnalizcd. We will not submit
10 our rights being taken from us for
tho benefit OF our enemies
The Austraiian people will not give
the same tariffs and economic ar
United sta'es. France and Italy.
. Does any one think Australia will
consent To such an invasion OF her SOW
erelgm rights except with force ma
Tho Evening Globe. in a strong edi-
Hughes and challenges the London
Tincs. saying:
he TrG ish h5anie s"s at fse vent
sailles conciavc None Of our allies
= RESPONSIBLE TO-. IT, as nothing would
he more gratifying to President Will
sou. Prcmier Clemenceau and the heads
OF tn" other govern r'ents than Cam
ada. australia and No" Zealand sit
sing with Japan and tho other twenty
n"wo-s that participated in the armis-
ti"> ronfn"n"co
The magnificent colonial troops
hay" won imperishablc rcuown in the
ing. and which concerned them less
directly than any of the European
powers.
Upon President Wilson'S principle
of Standardization. they should
have been consulted when neace was
not merely debated hut decided.
cldent that is bound to make a dis
agreeable impression upon communi
ties unaccus,omed TO their fate being
decided over their heads
TIMES SAYS DOhISEO>S
WE'RE CONSULTED
The Times loftily observes: 'Th,
snrErst:on raised in London that the
British dominjons were committed
wi,hou, being heard by the mother
country Will hardly he supported bv
The dcmocracies OF the dominions
themselves 1t would he interesting
ii the Times would inform us when
and where Can1d@. Australia and New
Zealand were invited 10 swallow Pres
iuent Wilson'S fourteen points, which
they believe include the Gripping OF
from the enemies shoulders to their
own Of what debts they have Incurred
in defending civilization against con
tirral aui ocracy.
This is Downing street at It's
It is generally predicted that the
. las has not been heard in this con
troversr. There is a belief here tina t
the American people will not support
the Wi'sonian clause. the giving Ger
many an eonal break with the allies
in the world trade. Nevertheless It
IS nla!n that Germany must trade. and
trade rrofi;ahly. TO pay the vast in
| IDENTITIES 10 be imnosed upon her.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
OFFENDING THIRD CLAUSE:
BY President Wilson in his famous
message TO Congress January S. 1918.
along with the thirteen other primer
pies which Germany accepted as the
chief basis for armistice and peace
negotiations. The clause reads:
- The removal so far as possible
! of all economic barriers and the es-
adjustment Of an equality OF trade
| conditions Gmong all the nations con
/ senting to the peace and associating
! themselves for its maintenance"
/
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