The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-20

is necessary, assume. that there
should be treaties with Austria, Hun
gary. Turkey and Bulgaria. Those
treaties are all more or less connected
with the treaty with Germany. The
question should like to ask is what
the prospects are of receiving those
treaties for action?''
The president: Il think il Is very
good This treaty is a model of the
others I saw enough Of the Others
before left Paris to know that they
are being framed upon the same set
of principles and that the treaty with
Germany is the model. / think that
is the chief element Of delay. sir.
Senator Lodge then asked whether
the president could show the commit
tee the tentative League OF Nations
draft submitted by Great Britain.
France and Italy.
The president: II would have sent
them to the committee with pleasure,
senator, if / had found that I had
them. took it for granted that had
them, but the papers that remain in
my hands remain there in a haphazard
way. can tell you the character
of the other drafts The British draft.
as remember it, that was in the form
of definite constitution of a league.
The French and Italian drafts were in
the form of a series of propositions
laying down general rules and ASSUME
ing that the commission, or whatever
body made the final Foundations,
would build upon those principles if
they were adopted. They were prin-
ciples quite consistent with the final
action"
Senator Lodge: There was a pre-
vious draft in addition to the one you
nave sent us. You spoke of a redraft.
That was not submitted to the COM
mittee."
The president: mo. that was pri-
vately my own" saf4
Senator Lodge: Was it before our
commission '
The president: NO; it was not be-
fore our commission"
The president said a draft OF article
10, which Senator johnson had pre-
sented to the committee, was part of
the draft which preceded the draft
which was sent to you"
Senator Johnson said he had taken
1t from the Independent
The. president: Il read it with the
greatest interest. because 1 had for
gotten 1T, to tell the truth, but recog-
nized 1T as soon as read it,
Senator Johnson: TT was the orig
inal plan?"
The president: "It was the original
form OF article 10, yes"
Senator Lodge said he had been
about to ask whether article 10 in
Its present form had been in the Brit
ish plan, but If there were no defi-
mite drafts of these plans, of course
the committee could not get them"
Asked by Senator Lodge whether he
had seen the resolutions for league
submitted by Secretary Lansing, thel
president replied:
YES"
Senator Lodge: mo specific action
was taken upon them?''
The president: Not in a formal
way
Senator Lodge asked whether the
United States would receive any part
OF the German PREPARATION fund.
The president: Il left that question |
open, senator, because I did not feel |
that had any final right to decide it. |
Upon the basis that was set UP in the
reparation clause the portion that the /
United States would receive would be |
very small at best, and my own judy |
ment was frequently expressed, not /
as a decision, but as judgment that !!
we should claim nothing under those
general clauses. / did that because I
coveted the moral advantages that l