Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-11
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nants of this settlement are not observed,
| the United States will send her armies and
| her navies 90 see that they are observed J"
The official Of the full text of the Presi-
| dents address was furnished to the White
| House last week by Fred A. Carlson, of
| Chicago, who was an official stenographer
with the American peace delegation and
who wrote that he would 'be glad TO
| swear to the accuracy" of the transcript.
Mr. Carlson's letter was addressed to
Charles l.. Swem stenographer to the
President. He explained that he had read
Senator Spencer's reply to the President
in the Chicago newspapers; that he had
Just gone over his notes and that he could
find mo such statement as that attrhut-
cd to MIR. Wilson by the Senator He
added that it was barely possible that the
quotation was from translation into
English of NJ Mantouxs translation into
French of the Presidents remarks, and,
rs you know, the translations sometimes
mixed things up bt."
81 wish | were IN q position To make
public what the President said, wrote
MIR. Carlson, 'for feel that the President
is sadly misuuoted, but of course as the
meeting was a secret one, ! can say moth
ing.
MIR Carlaons letter WIS made public
by Secretary Tumulty with this com
| ment:
This letter speaks for itself
Senator Spencer, in his reply TO Presi-
dent Wilson's telegram, said the state
ment which he had attributed To the
President was made upon the floor OF
the Senate on February z, 1920, by Sena-
tor Reed and so far NJ have learned has
never been denied until now.
In his speech Of February ? Senator
Reed quoted from copyrighted syndlcat-
cd article by Frank ii. Slmonds, which
purported to give the text of the Presi-
dents address at the eighth plenary Sos
SION and which Senator Johnson, Re
publican, California. caused 90 be inserted
IN the Congressional record on Decem-
ber 4. 1919
Along with MIR Carlson's transcript
the White House issried, m parallel column,
"for eomparison,' the version ot the
President : speech as given in Mr.. Simonds
article as il appears IN The Congressional
Record.
In the opposite column from The official
version of the President words as pre-
yio,,slv quoted. appears the following
How could the government of the
United States gu before the Congress
and the pcoplo of tho United States and
pretend that i, had assisted IN insurlng
the peace Of the world if believed that the
settlement agreed upon here contained
unstable or dangerous algumen to the
world should he troubled again, # the
conditions which We all regard as funda-
mental are challenged, the guarantees
which will be given you viii pledge that
the United States will send its arIny and
fleet across the ocean Is 1t surprising
under such conditions that IL should desire
to reach a solution Of the various prob
lems which seem 20 it satisfactory
The text Of President Wilson's address
rs supplied to the White House by MIR
Carlson follows:
"Mr. President, | should be very sorry
20 see this meeting adjourn with nerma-
nent impressions such as IL Is possible have
been created by some of the remarks
that our friends have made. ] should be
very sorry tn 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 UNI
due influence IN these matters and there
fore. I want TO call your attention to one
aspect Of these questions which has not
been dwelt upon.
we at i3NAAfA bf kAkftr0 n f'7<fsftu
settlement, that is To say, to eliminate
those elements of disturbance, so far AS
possible. which may interfere with the
pcsoe Of the world, and we are trying to
make an equitable distribution of terri
tories according 10 the races, the chino
graphical character of the people inhablt-
ing those territories.
And back OF that lies this funda-
mentally important fact that when the
decisions are made the allied and asso-
ciated powers guarantees TO MAINTAIN
them IL is perfectly evident, upon
moments 5 reflection. that the chief burden
of their maintenance will fall upon the
greater powers The chief burden of the
war fell upon the greater powers, and If it
had not been for their action, their mill
tarv action, we would not be here TO settle
these questions. And, therefore, we must
not close orr eyes 10 the fact that IN the
last analysis the military and naval
strength of the great powers will be the
final guarantees Of the peace of the world.
'In those circumstances, Is it unrea-
sonable and unjust that, not as dlctatOrs
but as friends, the great powers should
say TO their associates:
We cannot afford to guarantee ter
ritorial settlements which we do not be-
lieve to be right, and we cannot agree to
leave elements of disturbance unemoved,
which we believe viii disturb the peace of
the worldT
Take the rights of minorities. Moth
ing. ] venture TO say, rs more likely to
disturb the peace of the world than the
treatment which might IN certain cir
cunrstarees be 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 be
satisfied that the proper and necessary
guarantees have been given?
Il beg your friends from Roumania
and from Serbia 10 remember that, while
Roumania and Serbia are ancient SOW
ereignties; the settlements of this con-
ference are greatly adding To their terri
tories. You cannot in one part OF our
transactions treat Serbia alone 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
recognition of this conference as a single
entity and il this conference Is going to
recognize these various powers as new
sovereignties within definite territories,
hetchief euarantors are entitled to be
satisfied that the territorial settlements
are of a character To be permanent and
that the guarantees gwen are OF a char
acter to ensure the peace Of the world.
''It is not, therefore, the interventions
of those who would interfere, but the
action of those who would help. beg
that our friends will take that view of it
because / see no escape from that. view
of it.