Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-22
PRESIDENT WILSON
MAKES ANSWER TO
TWENTY QUESTIONS
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ion that the immediate adoption of
the treaty, along with the articles Of
the covenans of the league as written.
would certainly within the near H.
ture reduce the cost of living in this
country as elsewhere, by restoring
production and commerce to their
normal strength and freedom
For your convenience, | will mum
| Der the remaining paragraphs of this
letter as the questions to which they
are intended to reply are numbered.
| Seven: | have had no official in
| formation as to whether Norway,
| Sweden, Denmark, Holland or Swift
erland will join the league.
| Eeight: | answered your eighth
| question in reply to a question asked
me at our conference the other day.
(This question referred to licensing
of exports to Germany)
Handled BY Spain.
Nine: In February, 1917, Spain
was requested to take charge of Amer
! lean interests in Germany through
her diplomatic and consular repre-
sentatives and no other arrangement
| has since been made
| Ten: The committee to prepare
| plans for the organiza ton of the
/ league, and for the proceedings of
the first meeting of the assembly
has been appointed, but has not re-
ported.
Eleven: Article lis of the peace
/ treaty, part ", under which Germany
renounces all her rights to territory
| formerly belonging to herself or to
| her allies was understood, so far as
special provision was not made in the
treaty itse,f for its disposition, as con-
stituting the principal allies and asso-
ciated> powers the authority by which
such disposition should ultimately be
| determined. 1t conveys no title to
those powers, but merely entrusts the
disposition of the territory in question
to their decision.
Merely Trustceship.
J Twelve: Germany's remuneration In
favor of the principal allied and as
I sociated powers of her rights and titles
to her overseas territory as meant
similarly to operate as vesting in those
powers a trusteeship with respect of
their final disposition and government.
Thirteen: There has been a provi-
sional agreement as to the disposition
of these overseas possessions, whose
confirmation and execution is depend
of nations and the United States is a
party to the provisional government.
Fourteen: The only agreement be-
tween France and Great Britain with
regard to African territory of which
| am cognizant concerns the redispo-
sition of rights already possessed by
these countries on that continent. The
provisional agreement referred to IN
the preceding paragraph covers all the
German overseas possessions in Africa
as well as elsewhere.
| Fifteen: No mention was made N
CONNECTION with the settlement of the
Saar basin of the service of an Amer
lean member Of the commission of five
to be set up there.
Would BE Impartial.
Sixteen; 1t was deemed wise tina
the United states should be represent
ed by one member of the commission
for setting the new frontier lines OF
Belgium and Germany, because of the
universal opinion that Americas rep
resentative would add to the commis
sion a useful element of entire disin
terested judgment.
Seventeen: The choice of the com
mission for the Saar basin, was lief
to the council of the league 'of ma
| tons, because the Saar basln Is 10
fifteen years to be directly under thu
care and direction of the league OF ma
| tons '+ =
Eighteen: Article SO does in effec
provide that five of the members o
the. commission of seven to fix th'
boundaries between Poland ant
Czecho- Slovakia should be nominated
by certain countries, because there
are five principal allied and associat
ed powers, and the nomination of fiv'
representatives by those powers nee
essarily means the nomination of on'
= representative by each of those pow
\ ers. a"
Nineteen; No such commission ha
yet been appointed. The commission
referred is that for the fixing of thu
Polish boundaries.)
Twenty: 1t was deemed wise tina
the United States should have repre-
sentative on the commission to exer
else authority over the plebiscite 0
upper Silesia, for the same reason tina
| have given with regard to the com
mission for setting the frontier lin
of Belgium and Germany.
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"