The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-07-15
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concerned, stands c9r1p.ete. The d.
ficQ!.ies eneounte1e3 we're E2.E
rnary. Sometimes they seemed insT-
peyab7e. Il vas impossible TO accom-
modate the interest oG 50 great a body
Of nations-interes.s which Directly
or indirectly affected almost eTasy
nation in the woYld-without many
minor compromises The treaty, as
a result, is not exactly what we would
have written. It is probably not what
any one Of the national delegates
would have written. But re-
suits were worked out which, on
the whole, bear test. | 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 q whole, with
principles agreed upon as the basis
of the peace, as well as with the pIac-
tical possibilities of the international
situations which had to be faced and
dealt with as facts.
81 shall presently have occasion to
lay before you special treaty with
France, whose object is the tempor-
ary protection Of France from unpro-
voked aggression by the power with
whom this treaty Of peace has been
negotiated.
.:Its terms link it with the treaty.
l take the liberty, however, Of re-
serving it for special expiication on
another occasion.
''This role which America was to
play in the conference seemed deter
mined, as 1 have said, before my col
leagues and I got to Paris-deter-
mined by the universal expectations
of the nations whose representatives,
drawn from all quarters Of the globe,
we were to deal with. 1t was uni
versally recognized that America had
entered the war to promote no prl-
,vate or peculiar interest of her own
but only as the champion OF rights
which she was glad to share with
free men and lovers of justice every
where. We had formulated the prin-
ciples upon which the settlement was
to be naade-the principles upon
which the armistice had been agreed
to and the parleys of peace under
taken-and no one doubted that our
desire was to see the treaty of peace
formulated along the actual lines OF
those principles-and desired nothing
else. We were welcomed as disinter-
ested friends. We were resorted to
as arbiters in many difficult mat
ter. It was recognized that our ma
terial aid would be indispensable IN
the days to come, when industry and
credit would have to be brought back
to their normal operation again and
communities beaten to the ground
assisted to their feet once more, and
it was taken for granted, am proud
to say, that we would play the help
full friend in these things as in all
others without prejudice or favor
We were generously accepted as the
unaffected champion of what was
right. It was very responsible role
to play; but am happy to report that
the group of Americans who help
ed with their expert advice in each
part of the varied settlement sought
in every transaction to justify the
high confidence imposed in them.
New Hope of World.
"And that confidence, it seems to
me, is the measure of our opportun-
ity and the measure of our duty IN
the days to come, in which the new
hope of the peoples of the world is
to be fulfilled or disappointed. The
fact that America is the friend of ma
tions, whether they be rivals or as
sociates, is no new fact; it is only the
discovery of it by the rest of the
world that is new.
"America may be said to have just
reached her majority as world pow
er. It was almost exactly Fl years
ago that the results of the war with
Spain put US unexpectedly in posses