Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-11

count of a speech by Senator Spencer
Carlson then quotes the Presidents
speech in fun.
AT the Quai d'orsay. Saturday, May
81, 1919:
"'Mr President, should be very
sorry to see this meeting adjourn with
permanent impressions such as Ii is pos
sible have been created by some of the
remarks that our friends have made.
81 should be very sorry to have the
impression lodged in your minds that
the great powers desire to assume or
play any arbitrary role in these great
matters, or assume, because of any pride
OF authority to exercise an undue in
duence in these matters and therefore
want to call your attention TO one as
pect of these questions which has not
been .dwelt upon.
settlement, that is to say, to eliminate
those elements Of disturbance, so far as
possible which may interfere with the
peace Of the world, and we are trying to
graphical character OF the people in
habiting those territories.
GUARANTEE TO
MAINTAIN DECISIONS.
And back Of that lies this fundamen-
tally important fact that when the deci-
sions are made the allied and associated
powers guarantee to maintain them.
1t is perfectly evident upon a mo-
ment's reflection that the chief burden Of
their maintenance viii fall upon the
The chief burden Of the war fell upon
the greater powers, and IL 1t had not been
for their action, their military action, we
would not be here TO settle these ques-
tions.
land, therefore. we must not close our
eyes to the fact that in the last analysis
the military and naval strength Of the
great powers will be the final guarantee
or the peace OF the world.
In those circumstances Is IL unrea-
-sonable and unjust that not as dictators,
but as friends the great powers should
say to their associates I'VE cannot az
ford to guarantee territorial settlements
which we do not believe to be right, and
we cannot agree to leave elements of dis
turbance unremOved, which we believe
will disturb the peace Of the world?'
CONSIDERS RIGHTS
OF MINoRITIES.
Nothing, 1 venture to say, is more
likely to disturb the peace of the world
than the treatment which might in GER
tain circumstances be melted out TO mi
Dorities.
And, therefore, If the great powers
are TO guarantee the peace OF the world
in any sense, is It unjust that they should
be satisfied that the proper and neces-
sary guarantees have been given7
II beg our friends from Roumania and
from Serbia to remember that while
Roumania and Serbia are ancient SOW
ereignties the settlements OF this con-
ference afe greatly adding TO their ter
ritoTies.
"'You cannot in one part Of our trans
actions treat Serbia alone and In all of
the other part treat the kingdom of the
Serbs. the Greats and the Slovenes ms
a different entity. and If this conference
is going TO recognize these various par
ties as new soyeretgnties within definite
territories. the Quarantora ara antffIpd
to be satisfied that the territorial settle
ments are Of a character TO be perma-
nent and that the guarantees given are
Of a character to ensure the peace Of the
world.
alt is not, therefore, the interven-
tons of those who would interfere, but
the action Of those who would help.
II beg that our friends will take that
view Of it, because ! see no escape from
that view Of II.