The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-21
Fifth Question.

~ me 10 answer your fifth
question by saying that the provisions
oI the treaty to which you refer operate
merely to establish peace between the
) powers ratlfying, and that IL is uues-
uonsele whether it can be said that the
~ OF nations is in any true sense
cseateu py the association of Nnly three
ments. 0'0"
IN reply to your sixth question I can
ohIy express the confident opinion that
the immediate adoption of the treaty.
asong with the articles of the covenant
Ihe ieague, as written, would GER
talnly within the near future reduce the
cost Of living in this country as else
where, by restoring production and
freedom.
For your convenience, / will num-
per 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.
{o;n len Holland or Switzerland will
Eight answered your eighth oues-
ton IN reply to a question asked me
AZ our conference the other day. (This
ports to Germany
Nine-ln February. 1917. Spain was
requested to take charge of American
interests in Germany through her dip
Tomato and consular representatives
M no other arrangement has since
been made.
'Ten-The committee to prepare
league, for the ESTABLISHMENT Of the
seat OF the league, and for the pro-
ceedings of the first meeting of the
assembly. has been appointed, but has
not reported.
"ElevenWArtlcle 11s of the peace
treaty.. mart M 1Odar mbiob CarYoanxr
~renounces all her rights to territory
formerly belonging to herself or to her
aiies was understood, so far as spe-
cha provision was not made in the
treaty itself for it's disposition as con-
shutting the principal allied and asso-
ctated powers as the authority by
which such disposition should ulti-
mately be determined. 1t conveys no
title to those powers, but merely en-
trusts the disposition Of the territory
IN question to their decision.
"Twelve-Germany'S remuneration In
favor of the principal allied and asso-
ciated powers of her rights and titles
to her, overseas possession is meant
similarly to operate as vesting in those
powers a trusteeship with respect of
their final DISPOSITION and government.
'Thirteen-There has been a pro-
visional agreement as to the disposi-
tion of these overseas possessions,
whose confirmation and execution is
oOBViiuSllh upoil llC approval VI Tic
league of nations and the United
states Is a party to that provisional
agreement.
"Fourteen-The only agreement be-
tween France and Great Britain with
regard to African territory of which
I am cognizant concerns the redis-
position of rights already possessed by
those countries on that continent.
The provisional agreement referred
TO- in the preceding paragraph covers
III fhA- n@naa Recommendation.
in Africa as well as elsewhere. L
No u s. Delegate.
"Fifteen-No mention was made in
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.
"Sixteen-It was deemed wise that
the United States should be represent
ed by one member of the commission
Belgium and Germany because of the
universal opinion that Americas rep
resentati3e would add to the commits
sion a useful element of entirely dis
interested judgment.
ea Seventeen.-The choice Of the COM
mission for the Saar basin was left to
the council of the league OF nations.
because the Saar basin Is for 10 years
to he directly under the care and d.
r%ection of the league of nations.
ItEulttU- liCIG 90 uOIo III elleCl
provide that five of the members OF
the commission of seven to fix the
boundaries between Poland and Czecho-
Slovakia should be nominated by cer-
tain countries because there are five
principal allied and associated powers,
and the nomination of five representa-
tives by those powers necessarily means
the nomination of one representative
by each of those powers.
'"Nineteen-No such commission has
yet been appointed. (The commission
referred to is that for the fixing of the
Polish ~boundarieso
'Twenty-It was deemed wise that
the United States should have a repre-
sentative on the commission set up to
exercise authority over the plebiscite
OF upper Silesia, for the same reason
that / have given with regard to the
commission for settling the frontier line
Of Belgium and Germany.
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"