The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-08-28

those terms.
81 respectfully suggest that, having
said this, l have in effect answered
also your second third and fourth
| questions so far as l myself AIN con-
| cerned.
Peace When Treaty Is Ratified.
Permit me to answer your fifth
question by saying that the provisions
of the treaty to which you refer oper-
ate merely to establish peace between
the powers ratifying, and that IT Is
questionable whether il can be sald
that the League of Nations is in any
true sense created by the association
Of only three Of the allied and assoc
ciated governments.
"ln reply to your sixth question |
can only express the confident opinion
that the immediate adoption of the
treaty, along with the articles OF me
covenant of the league ms written
would certainly within the near future
reduce the cost of living in this coun-
try az elsewhere, by restoring produc-
strength and freedom.
For your convenience, | Will num-
her the remaining paragraphs of TINS
letter as the questions TO which they
are intended to reply are numbered.
"VII. | have had no official infor-
nation as to whether Norway, Swe-
den, Denmark, Holland, or Switzer-
land will join the league.
"VIU. | answered your eighth ques-
ton in reply to a question asked me at
our conference the other day. CThis
question referred to licensing of eX-
ports to Germany
ak. In February, 1917, Spain as
requested to take charge of American
interests i'm Germany through her dip
lomatic and consular representatives,
and no other arrangement has since
been made.
~ The committee to prepare plans
for the organization of the league, for
the establishment of the seat of the
league and for the proceedings Of the
first meeting of the assembly, has been
appointed, but has not reported
"NI Article IFS of the peace treaty,
part ", under which Germany re-
nounceS all her rights to territory FOR
merly belonging to herself or to her
allies was understood, so far as Spe-
cial provision was not made i'm the
treaty itself, for ITS disposition, as
constituting principal allied and assoc
clated powers the authority by which
such disposition should ultimately be
determined. II conveys no title to
those powers. but merely ntruSts the
disposition of the territory in question
70 their decision.
mi. Germany's remuneration I'm
favor of the principal allied and assoc
ciated powers of her rights and titles
TO her overseas possessions is meant
similarly to operate as veSting in those
paavrrs a trusteeShip with respect to
their final disposition and government
League to Pass on Disposition.
mil There has been a provisional
agreement as 10 the disposition Of
these overseas possessions. whose CON
frmation and execution is dependent
upon the approval of the League of Ma
tionS, and the United States is n party
to that provisional agreement.
XIV. The only agreement between
France ana Great Britain with regard
to African territory, Of which ! am
cognzant, concerns the redispoSition
of rights already possessed by those
countries on that continent. The pro-
viSioua agreement referred to i'm We
preceding paragraphs covers all the
German overseas possessions in Africa
as will ms elsewhere.
"NN. No mention was made i'm con-
naction with the settlement OF the
Saar basin Of the service of an Amer
lean member Of the commission of five
30 he set up there.
"NNI. II was deemed wise that the
United States should be represented by
one member of the commission for set
Tin. the new frontier lines of Belgium
and Germany, because Of the universal
opinion that Americas representative
would add to the commission a useful
element Of entirely disinterestcd judg
ment
League to Pick Saar Commission.
"NNII. The choice of the commits
sion for the Saar basin was left to the
council of the League Of, Nations, be,
cause the Saar basin is for II years to
bc directly under the care and direc
.tf,t, or the IconIIp of Nations
"NVUI Article SO does in effect pro-
vide That five of the members of the
commission of seven to fix the boun-
DIARIES between Poland and Czecho
Slovnlia should he nominated by GER
tain countries because there are five
principal allied and associated powers,
md me nomination of five representa-
tivcs by those powers means the nomi-
nation VI one representative by each
Of those powers,
"NIN No such commission has yet
been appointed. (The commission re-
fcrrcd to is that for the fixing of the
Polish boundaries)
"NN. II was deemed wise that the
United States should have repreSen-
tauyc ON the commission set mp to
exercise authority over the plebisclte
of Upper Sfesla for the same reason
TINT ! havc given with regard to the
commission for settling the frontier
line Of Belgium and Germany.
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"