Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-11

every arrangement of the Europe
of every Arrangement of the world
that preceded the war.
People Have Been Deceived.
"Restive peoples had been told that
fleets and armies, which they toiled
to sustain, meant peace; and they
now knew that they had been lied
to; that fleets and armies had been
maintained to promote national am
bitions and meant war They knew
that no old policy meant anything
else but force, force-always force.
And they knew that it was intoler-
able.
Every true heart in the world, and
every enlightened judgment de-
manded that, at whatever cost of in
dependent action, every government
that took thought for its people, for
justice or for ordered freedom
should lend itself to a new purpose
and utterly destroy the order of in
ternational politics. Statesmen
might see difficulties, but the people
could see none and could brook no
denial. A war in which they had
been bled white to beat the terror
that lay concealed in every balance
of power must not end in a mere
victory of arms and a new balance.
The monster that had resorted to
arms must be put in chains that
could not be broken.
World Must Have Peace.
The united power of free nations
must put stop to aggression, and
the world must be given permanent
peace. There was not the will or
the intelligence to accomplish that
now, there must be another and a
final war and the world must be
swept clean of every power that
could renew the terror. The league
of nations was not merely an in
strument to adjust and remedy old
wrongs under an international
treaty of peace; it was the only hope
for mankind. Again and again had
the demon of war been cast out Of
the house Of the peoples and the
house swept clean by a treaty. OF
peace; only to prepare time when
he would enter in again with spirits
worse than himself. The house must
now be given a tenant who could
hold it against all such.
Convenient, indeed, indispensable
as statesmen found the newly
planned league of nations to be fot
the execution of present plans of
peace and reparation, they saw it
in a new aspect before their work
was finished. They saw it as the
main object of the peace, as the
only thing that could complete it
or make it worth while. They saw
it as the hope of the world and that
hope they did not dare to disappoint.
Shall we or any other free people
hesitate to accept this great duty?
Dare we reject it and break the
heart of the. world?
Result of Conference Complete.
"And so the result of the confer
ence of peace, so far as Germany is
concerned, stands complete. The
difficulties encountered were very
many. Sometimes they seemed in
superable. 1t was impossible to
accommodate the interests of 50
great a body of nations-interests
which directly or indirectly affected
almost every nation in the world
without many minor compromises.
The treaty as a result, is not exact
ly what we would have written.
1t is probably not what any one
of the national delegations would
have written. But results were
worked out which on the whole
bear test. l think that it will be
found that the compromises which
were accepted as inevitable nowhere
cut to the heart of any principle
The work of the conference squares,
as a whole, with the principles
agreed upon as the basis of the
peace as we'll as with the practical
possibilities of the international sit
uations which had to be faced and
dealt with as facts.
Withholds French Pact.
II shall presently have occasion
to lay before you a special treaty
with France, whose object is the
temporary protection of France
from unprovoked aggression by the
power with whom this treaty oi
peace has been negotiated. 1t.
terms link it with this treaty.
! take the liberty, however, of reserv
ing it for special explication on an
other occasion.
"The role which America was tc
play in the conference seemed de.
termined, as I have said, before my
colleagues and l got to Paris-de