New-York tribune., 1920-03-04
Shantung Vote
Is Delayed by
Bitter Enders
Continued from pnse I

whom I know that he had had occa-
sion to visit law office in the City Of
New York upon some professional
business and not being able ct once
to see the gentleman upon whom he
called he busted himself looking about
the Office. He saw ten volumes as
large as the bound volumes Of THE
Congressional Record which were
labeled Treaty of Peace with Ger
many He had time enough to take
them down. He found propositions,
counter propositions, protocols, origi-
nal drafts, notifications Of drafts, ap-
parently every detail connected with
the treaty with Germany; and along
side them, he said, there we're at least
six volumes equally specific in detail
relating to the treaty with Austria
There is not one tenth of one volume
Of such information upon the files Of
the Senate. either in the Committee on
Foreign Relations or elsewhere"
Senator Borah attacked the entire
treaty. It restores the old order in
Europe, he declared, "by it's rejection
of the principle of the freedom of the
seas and it's return to conscr ption,
secret treaties, broken pledges and
land grabbing"
"The Adriatic trouble now is an at
tempt by circuitous means to carry out
the Treaty Of London, made in 1915"
Senator Borah continued. "The otA .r
secret treaties have practically been
carried to fruition in this treaty with
Germany. Only two Of them are not
to be found in the document before US.
One Is the Treaty of London; the other
is the treaty giving Constantinople to
Russia.
Says U. S. Repudiated Pledge
"The United States has accepted all
the European policies, control of the
seas. conscription and execution Of Sc
cret treaties. On every hand we
see that Europe has had her way,
When Germany asked an armistice
the President communicated the terms
on which peace could be made, with
the approval of the United States, and
with two exceptions. freedom of the
seas and construction with reference
to reparations, the Allies accepted the
fourteen points and the Mount Vernon
speech. There Is ample evidence that
It was the Presidents purpose that
this peace should be made on q new
theory and when the Allies accepted
his terms it became q binding CON
tract as to the terms on which peace
should be made.
What became Of that contract at
Versailles? Who can find a single
Fundamental principle that was not dis
carded? Perhaps Europe was unable
to accept these principles. but the
United States for the first time in its
history Is placed in the position of re-
pudiating it's solemn pledge. In every
instance where these principles came
in conflict with the secret treaties or
imperialistic aspirations the President
gave way.
The distinguishing feature Of Euro
pean diplomacy has always been Sc
crecy. Liberal thought In Great Brit.
ain and France denounced this long
before the war, and President wilson
demanded that the peace conference be
in the open, because no treaty erected
in secret would have the worlds moral
support. Yet the doors at Versailles
were closed and hermetically scaled
and guards placed before them to GEN.
sor the news going to the European
and American press"
Terms Treaty . Betrayal
! Senator Hitchcock, interruptins. de-
clared this was an open covenant.
/ openly erraved At "Ths President
| brought the covenant to the United