The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-21
FIVE OF FAMOUS
FOURTEEN POINTS

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a clear and even acute idea OF the
power OF the senate in regard to
treaties"
To bring forward propositions not
inseparably connected with the iTnfne-
diate and difficult task of making a
binding peace with Germany, Sem
ator Lodge said. @May ruin all by
trying to do too much at once" Such
propositions. he said. were the five
points enumerated.
In his discussion OF the freedom
of the seas, the senator called atten-
ton to the Strange development
in connection with the pending naval
appropriation bill. the advocacy by
Rear Admiral Padger of a. program
calling for navy as large as that
of England by 1926. He said he
thought he had favored building
more ships than anybody else, but
that he never had contemplated such
a program and did not think 1t nee
essary.
"The only naval danger that we
were obliged to consider in the past
on the Atlantic coast has ceased to
be. We need a powerful feet in the
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navy sufficient to furnish that
feet to the western coast. And yet
at this moment we are suddenly
called upon to build a fleet which
shall be the equal of that of Eng
land.''
OF suggestions that a great navy
is needed for police duty in connection
with the league of nations, the sem
ator said he would mot stop to ask
who is to order that navy about the
world"
Wants Definite Resolution
Mr.. Lodge said he would be glad
If the senate debates on peace were
supplemented by some definite reso-
luton expressing views on import
ant points.
ate will take such action, cannot
tell, because there seems to be a
feeling among some senators that it
is an act of intolerable audacity for
the senate even to suggest to the ex-
ecutive that it has opinions which
ought to be considered. Personally
I do not share this view.
"Peace being our object, the first
step toward peace is to make a
peace with the country with which
we have been and are at war-that
is with Germany. If the peace with
Germany is to be durable. terms
must be exacted which will make It
SO far as human foresight goes, i'm
possible for Germany to break out
again upon-the world with a war; of
conquest. This can not be done in
treaty engagements and signatures
to documents. At this juncture OF
affairs Germany would sign any
thing, and her pledge would be as
worthless as the guarantees she
gave to Belgium.
'It is well to remember that Ger
many did not change its nature over
night when the kaiser ran away to
Holland. The ddep rooted ambitions
the evil principles so carefully in
stilled for half century. the bar
barous methods and doctrines all re-
main unaltered.
The Guarantees Needed
sT do not need to rehearse what
those physical guarantees should be,
for I have stated my views upon
them more than once to the senate,
and think there is general agree
ment upon them not only in the
senate but among the American peo-
pie. They include the restoration of
Belgium, the return of Alsace-Lor-
raine to France. of italian irredenta
to, Italy, the establishment OF a
Jugo-Slav state formed by the
Czecho- -S1ovaks. They include also
the security of Greece, the settle
ment of Albania and Montenegro the
restoration OF Rumania. the consol-
idation of all the Rumanian people
under one government as well as
the naturalization of the straits,
the putting Of Constantinople under
International protection with Greece
perhaps as the mandatory power to
administer the affairs of the city,
the independence Of Armenia, the
return of those portions Of Asia Mi
nors where Greeks are predominant,
to Greece, the protection of Syria and
Palestine from the Turks, a large,
powerful and independent Polish
state, the independence of Russia's
Baltic provinces, the return of Dam