The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
Revelations From One Of MIR. VIII
sons Appointees.

sons Appointees.
1t was the President of the United
States who stood sponsor for WILLIAM
q. BULLITT, the man who on Friday,
before the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations, ripped to shreds the
curtain of secrecy WOODROW WILSON
drew to hide the proceedings OF the
American delegation to the Paris
Peace Conference. This fact looms
big in the sensational disclosures Mr..
BULLIrr has made.
Mr.. WILSON introduced Mr.. BULLITr
into public Office. Mr.. WILSON made
, Mr.. BULLITr a member of the Amer
lean Peace Delegations staff of assist
ants Mr.. WILSON accredited Mr..
BULLI1T as an ambassador from the
Peace Delegation to the Bolsheviki in
Russia. Mr.. BULLITT was established
by Mr.. WILSON as an agent having
his complete confidence.
The association of Mr.. BULLITT with
Mr.. WILSON'S Peace Delegation was
ended on Mr.. BUILITT's own motion
and not on the initiative Of Presi-
dent WILSON.
In the absence of any denunciation
Of Mr.. BULLITT by Mr.. WILsoN-and
none had been uttered when Mr.. Bull
LIT took the stand to testify before
the Senate committee-the American
k.uhIir ie " rro ntoI In q es,Iuino tha 4
Mr.. WILSON found In MFR. BULLTTT's
behavior no reason to alter the good
opinion of him that must have existed
in his mind when Mr.. BULLITT re-
ceived his credentials as an employee
of the Peace Delegation.
Beside this pregnant fact the init
macy of Mr.. BULLITT with other men,
bers of Mr.. WILSON'S Peace Delega-
ton, attested by the interesting ex-
hibits introduced by the witness in
his testimony, becomes of secondary
Importance, though it loses nothing
of Its corroboratlve value.
And If Mr.. BULLITT's evidence is
true it discloses condition in Paris
created by Mr.. WILSON more deplora-
BILE than that which even the most
pessimistic students of the President s
self-determined diplomacy have be-
lieved existed.
1t displays Mr.. WILSON as the orlgi-
nator of proposed international COM
pact which was designed to destroy
the Monroe Doctrine; compact
which even Mr.. AUoHINcLoss, the SON
in-law of the faithful Colonel HOUSE,
could not swallow. Mr.. BULLITT's
testimony reveals Mr.. WILSON as the
negotiator in the name of America of
a world treaty of which his own Sec
rotary of State said:
81 believe that If the Senate could
only understand what this treaty
means and If the American people
could readily understand. It would
unquestionably be defeated. but I
wonder II they will ever understand
what It lets them in for"
Mr.. BULLITT's testimony shows that
he Joined the Wilson Peace Delegation
(. inspired by the>belief that Mr.. VII
SONS Fourteen Points were something
more than rhetoric. He seems to
have taken seriously "open covenants
openly arrived at" He appears ia
have thought generous matching OF
minds was to mark the Peace Confer,
ence. He felt opportunity was to be
given for free counsel and frank ex.
change of honest opinions, with Mr.
WILSON benevolently presiding. But
what he found and what he described
70 the Senate committee was quite
different.
He found a hand picked body OF
Peace Delegates nominally represent,
Ing America but actually without abil.
lty TO function as representatives OF
the American people, for the reason
that Mr.. WILSON so oyerawed and
dominated the American delegation
that the other members cut little fig,
IRE 10 Its deliberations. Tie found
WooDRow WILSON, who talked OF
democracy, practising an arbitrary
rule of the utmost rlgidity and Sc,
Worthy. The only liberty of sctior
they appeared to enjoy. according to
Mr.. BULLITT, was the ancient privi
lsge OF cussing the court.
He found WOODROW WILSON. witt
ar his fine phrases about freedom, s
c;setor. automatically ruling. exer