The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-12
SECRETARY OF
STATE OPPOSED
Wilson, Wrote Article X.
Only U. S. Proposal to
Survive.
LANSING DISLIKED TREATY
!ormer American Member of
Peace Board Tells History
Of Treaty Making,

Of Treaty Making.
Washington, Sept. 1.-THE league
W nations covenant was declared by
Rd" and entirely useless" William
~. Bullitt, of Philadelphia, former
ttache to the American peace con-
rence, testified before the senate
preign relations committee this aft
$Anoon. Bullitt asserted that Ian
Mng made this declaration in the
purse OF a conversation II had with
&he secretary of state at $3.50 o'clock
On the afternoon of May 10 last"
M III the senate and the American
people understand all that the treaty
let's them in for. 1t will unquestion-
ably be defeated" Bullitt quoted
Lansing as having said to him.
s"Mr. Knox (Senator Knox of
Pennsylvania) will probably under
stand the treaty better than any one
else in America and so will Mr.. Lodge
(Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts,,
but Mr.. Lodges position will prob
ably become purely political, while
Mr. Knox is more likely to instruct
the American people in the real
meaning of it." Bullitt also said Ian
sing told him.
IN Lansings opinion, Bullltt testi-
fled. "the great powers had gone
ahead and arranged the world to suit
themselves"
Geat Britain War Hog.
He also credited the secretary of
state as having said to him that
Great Britain and France had got
everything they wanted out of the
peace conference" and that the unan-
imous consent imposed upon the
league councii'' would result In the
smaller and weaker nations never
getting anything out OF the league,
for the great powers in the council
would never consent, unanimously or
otherwise, to the small and weaker
nations getting anything they did not
want them to have"
Lansing had also told him, he.
said, that he personally thought the
league covenant would be greatly
strengthened, especially the judicial
clauses. 80 as to make arbitration
compulsory"
Lansing also was represented as
opposed to the United States becom
ing mandatory to Armenia or any
other country and thought that Con-
stantinople should be made a local
government under in International
government"
Opposed Shantuns.
Bullitt said that Gen. Bliss and
Henry White. of the American peace
commission. besides Mr.. Lansing,
strongly opposed the Shantung pro-
vision Of the treaty.
Lansing was not at all enthusias-
tic about many provisions Of the
treaty. he added.
Bullitt described his efforts to per
suade President Wilson to act in be-
half of the bolshevist government, In
Russia. He told why he had resigned
his state department connections and
had quit the American peace COM
mission when the president, he de-
clared, showed no disposition to take
up Russia's cause.
Wilson Wrote Article X.
ARTICLE X, Of the league Of nations
is the contribution Of President Will
son to the covenant Of the league Of
nations, William c. BulIitt, Of Phila-
delphia, told the committee today.
# Bullitt told the committee that
while with the peace commission IT
i had been his duty to gather together
all information concerning the league
7of nations.
1.-THE only proposal Of the president
(which remains in the covenant of the
aleague of nations as 1t was adopted
lis Article X" Bullitt said, In reply to
h question by Senator Knox. Of Penn
ssylvania.
Opposition by President Wilson
Blocked a proposition to have the
slegislative bodies of the member ma
7Stions represented in the assembly OF
q the league Of nations, Bullitt said
l41'he 1900 members OF the staff Of the
American peace commission were
Al1ept busy In Paris, Bullitt said, "be-
scause all of the nations who had COM
3plaints to make besieged the Amer
4 sican experts"
Y Bullitt submitted to the committee
#original drafts of President Wilson's
Il plan for the league of nations, one
of which he said was written on the
i presidents own typewriter and "in-
i teresting because of peculiar spell
ling"
Bullitt said he was sent to Russia
by order of Secretary Lansing to in
4 vestigate political and economic con-
Il diticns. He read memorandum
i which he had sent to Col House
Il recommending the withdrawal Of the
z american troops, declaring that they
no longer served any useful purpose
y and that they were in danger of g
disaster.
"They only increase the cynicisn'
n regarding all our movements and
serve to act as a stimulus for re-
j cruiting the red forces" Bullitt's
! memorandum said. The memoran.
dunn urged immediate withdrawal oi
troops (which appear to have beer
abandoned by their government"
Proposed Russian Conference.
a President Wilson proposed in the
q council of ten, a conference in Sa-
lonica with all of the representatives
of the various governments in Rus
s. sia. including the soviet representa-;
&tives, Bullitt testified. Clemenceau
Composed any conference with the boil
shevists
Bullitt said he was ordered to Rus
sia to obtain from the soviet govern
9nent an exact statement of their
proposals to stop fighting. He de-
s Jared that Col. House had told him