New Britain herald., 1919-08-19
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Necessity For Treaty.

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 Necessity For Treaty Your reference to the necessity of action leads me to ask one question: If we nave to restore peace to the Worid, 1t is necessary, I assume, that there should be treaties with Austria Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria. Those treaties are all more or less connected with the treaty with Germany The question l should like to ask is what the prospects are of receiving those treaties for action, The President: I think it is very good, sir, and so far as I can judge from the contents of the dispatches from my colleagues on the other side of the water, the chief delay is due to the uncertainty as to what is going 10 happen to this treaty. ThIs treaty IS model of the others. 1 saw enough of tfte others before I left Paris to know that they are Ieing framed up- on the same set of rrhciplcs and that the treaty with Germany is the model. l think that is the chief element of de- lay, sir.
 Not Essential to Treaty. Senator Lodge: They arc not re- gardcd essential to the COn&idcra- ton of this treaty? The President: They are not re- garded as such, no, sir; they follow this treaty.
 Senator Lodge: do rot know about the other treat ties, but the treaty with Poland, as an example, has been completed?
 Tl;e President: Yes, and signed; but it is dependent upon this treaty. My thought was to submit it upon the act on this treaty. s
 Wants Tentative Draft.
 Senator Lodge then asked whether the president could show the commit tee the tentative League of Nations drafts submitted by Great Britain, France and Italy.
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 q would have sent them to the committee with pleasure, senator, if had found that I had them. I took it for granted that I had them; but the papers that remain in my hands re- main there in a haphazard way. I can tell you the character of the other drafts. The British draft was the only one as I remember that was in the form Of a a~definite constitution of a league. The French and Italian drafts were in the form of a series of propositions laying down general rules and assuming that the commis- sion or whatever body made the final form ulations would build upon those principles if they were adopted. They were adopted. They were principles quite consistent with the final action.
 British Draft Misleading.
 II remember saying to the commit tee when I was there in March, some thing to the effect that the British draft had constituted the basis. I rJ,f <l leading and 1 am very glad to tell the committee just what I meant
 some months before the conference assem bled, a plan for the league of nations had been drawn up by a Brit ish committee a the head of which was Mir. PhllimOre--I believe the MT. PhllllmOre who was known as the au- thority on international law. A copy of that document was sent to me and l built upon that q redraft I will not now say whether I thought it was better or not an improvement, but I built on that a draft which was quite different, inaSmuch as it put definite ness where there had been what seem ed indefinitcnesS in the Phillimore suggestions. Then, between that time and the formation of the COmmisSioO on the league of nations l had the ad-
 
 shuts of South Africa who seemed to me to have done some very clear thinking, particularly with regard cp what was to be done with the pieces of the diSm em mbered empires. After l got to Paris, therefore, I rewrote the docunept to which l have alluded and you may have noticed that it consisted of a series of articles and then supple mcntarY agreements. It was in the supplem entary agreements that l em- bodied the additional ideas that had come to me not only from Gen. Shuts paper, but from other discussions That is the full story of how the plan winch l sent to the committee was built up.
 Gen. Shuts Plan Used.
 Senator Lodge:
 'Then of course it is obvious that the Gen. Shuts plan had been used That appears on the face of the docu- ment
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 The President: Yes.
 Senator Lodge; Then there was previous draft in addition to the one you have sent to us. You spoke of a redraft. That was not submitted to the committee The President: No that was pri- vately my own
 Senator Lodge: Was 1t before our comm iSsion?
 The President: Mo- Draft of Article K The president said :; draft of Ar ticlc which Senator Johnson had presented to the committee Twas part of the draft which preceded the draft which was sent to you." Senator Johnson: It was the orig inal plan?