New Britain herald., 1920-10-11

l those clements of disturbance, so far | as possible, which may interfere with | the peace Of the world. and we are l trying to make an equitable distrIbu- | ton of territories according to the races. the ethnographical character | of the people inhabitating those ter | ritories
 And back of that lies this fuuda- mentally important fact that when I the decisions are made the Allied and | associated powers guarantee to main | tain them.
 It ia perfectly evident upon a | moments reflection that the chief | burden ot their maintenance will :all upon tho greater powers. The chief burden Of the war fell upon the great CT powers, and if it had not been for l their action, their military action, we lswouId not be hero to settle thcse questions And, therefore we must not close our eyes to the fact that in | tha last analN sis tho military and naval strength of the great pywors will be the final guarantee of the peace of the world.
 Tn those circumstances is it am reasonable and unjust that not as dc tators but as friends the great powers should say to their associates:
 We cannot afford to guarantee ter ritorial settlements which we do not believe. to be right. and we cannot agree to leave clements of disturpance unremoved, which wa believe will dis
 turb the peace Of the world"
 Take the rights of minorities.
 Nothing. I venture to say, is moro
 likely to disturb the peace of he
 world than the treatment which might
 in certain circumstances he meted out
 to minorities. And therefore if the
 great powers are to guarantee the
 peace of the world in any sense is it
 unjust that they should he satisfied
 that the proper and necessary Suarah-
 tees have been given?
 .'I beg your friends from Roumania
 and from Serbia to remember that
 while Roumania and Serbia arc an-
 cient sovereignties, the settlements of
 this conference are greatly adding to
 their territories. You cannot in one
 part of our transactions treat Serbia
 alane and in all of the other parts
 treat the kingdom of the Serbs, the
 Croats and the Slovenes as a different
 entity, for they are seeking the recog-
 milton of this conference as a single
 entity, and if this conference is going
 ta recognize these various powers, as
 new sovercignties within definite ter
 ritories, the chief guarantees are en-
 titled to be satisfied that the terri
 torial settlements arc of a character
 to be permanent and that the guar
 antees given are of character to
 ensure the peace of the world.
 Tt is not, therefore, the intcrven-
 tions Of those who would interfere,
 but the action of those who would
 help. I beg that our friends will take that view of it because l see no es- cape from that view of it.
 How can a power like the United States for exampIe=-for l can speak for no other-after signing this treaty. if it contains elements which they do not believe will be perma- nent, go 5000 miles away across the sea and report to its people that 1t has made a settlement of the peace of the world? 1t cannot do so. And yet there underlies all of these Iran sections the expectation on the part. for example. of Roumania and of Czecho-Slovakia,i and of Serbia, that if any covenants of this settlement are not observed, the United States will send her armies and her navies to see that they are observed.
 "In those circumstances, is it un- reasonable that the Unied States should insist upon being satisfied that the settlements are correct?t Observe Mir. Bratiano-and I speak of his sue- gestions with the utmost respect suggested that we could not, so to say, invade the sovereignty of Roumania, an ancient sovereignty, and make cer- tain prescriptions with regard to the rights of minorities. But l beg him to observe that he is overlooking the fact that he is asking the sanction of the allied and associated power for great additions of territory which come to Roumania by the common victory of arms and that therefore We are entitled to say: "If We agree to these additions of territory We have the right to insist upon certain guarantees of peace.
 Il beg my friend. Mir. Kramer. and my friend. MT. Trumbic. and my friend MT. Bratiano. to believe that if We should feel that it is best to leave the words which they have wished to omit. in the treaty. it is not because We want to insist upon un- reasonable conditions. but that we want the treaty to accord to us the right of judgment as' to whether these are things which we can afford to guarantee.
 Therefore the Impressions with which we should disperse ought to bo there. that We arc all friends-of course that goes without saying-but that We must all he associates in d common effort. and there can be no frank and earnest association in the common effort unless there is a com mon agreement as to what the rights