The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-11-06
Tells HEARERS OF
HALL OF MIRRORS
HARRY Hansen, Famed War
Correspondent, Tells Keno
shans of Great Palace At
Versailles.
HAS PRAISE FOR WILSON
Speaker At Congregational Mems Club
Dinner Monday Declares President
Wilson Was Greatest Man AT
Peace Conference.
HAS PRAISE FOR WILSON

Describing the great "Hall of Mir
tors'' at Versailles as it appeared when
The representatives Of the nations Of
the world gathered around the peace
table this summer and contrasting this
scene with that which occurred in the
Iame historic room less than forty years
ago when the now conquered Germans
were the conquerors, Harry Hansen,
the famous war correspondent Of the
Chicago Daily News, and one-time pris-
oner Of the Germans, interested the
members Of the Congregational Men g
Club Monday evening in the parlors Of
the church with his account of An
Inside View of the Peace Conference. -
Recalls Germany's Former Triumph.
The speaker in a very interesting
way explained the significance of the
fact that the peace Of Versailles, the
peace which marked the fall Of mill
tarism and kings, was signed in the
palace of the Bourbons, the greatest
monument to the oppression of kings,
the most beautiful palace of Europe
and the one which had been built by
labor and treasure wrung from peasant
subjects. He recalled that the repre-
sentatives of the peoples of the world
walked on the floors that kings and
princes had once strolled along. He told
how inquisitive American newspaper
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93,000,000 silver table, around which
SAe peace delegates were gathered, and
on which nearly one hundred and fifty
years ago America and England signed
Che treaty which gave this country it's
independence. This was the same table
on which the Germans signed the peace
terms and admitted their defeat.
Tells of Peace Meetings.
The speaker also took his hearers to
Go famous O'clock ROOM where most
az tho sessions of the peace conference
were held. He declared the scene when
che body was in session ''looked like
meeting of the board of directors of a
hsge corporation but added that there
was a strange mixture Of romance in
the scene due to the fact that men of
every race and color were sprinkled
among the peace delegates,
Mr.. Hansen explained that Europe
tasa the matter all settled before Presi-
GaIt Wilson arrived with his fourteen
EsSS2Es. He described in detail how
sssaHee under the leadership Of Clemen-
G0Sa dominated the conference. He
SOaa Of the struggles of the smaller
powers for q place in the deliberations
Of the committees and showed how the
European nations realizing that Ameri-
ca wanted only the League of Nations
from the war, bargained cleverly for
It with our representatives
Praises President Wilson.
The speaker had nothing but praise
for President Wilson, who, he said, as
q person unframed in the tricks of
diplomacy, went into the very den of
European diplomats and in spite Of
every opposition gained concessions for
America that had not been thoucht
possible. fThe man that was the
greatest in the conference-an I saw
it as a Roosevelt Republican-was
President Wilson, declared Mr.. Han
sen.
The address was interspersed with
interesting historic incidents each of
them giving an inside view of one of
the great mooted questions of the
treaty. One of the notable stands TAX
en- by the speaker was that he declared
openly in favor of the equality of ra-
ces, which was denied the Orientals by
the conference.
Follows Regular Dinner.
The address was one Of series be-
ing presented here by the Congrega-
tional Mems Club in connection with
their regular monthly dinners. AT the
dinner which preceded it, the Elks
Quartette furnished the music while
the two hundred members of the club
ate The musicians were splendidly
aided by Miss Doris Honore, who won
great applause for her vocal solos. At.
the December meet, the exact date for
which will be announced later, General
Leonard Wood is to be brought to Ke-
nosha.