The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-15

help. 1 beg that our friends will
take that view of it, because see
no escape from that view of it.
How can power like the United
State-for l can speak for no other
after signing this treaty, if it con-
tains elements which they do not be-
lieve will be permanent, go 5000
miles away across the sea and report
to it's people that it has made set
tlement Of the peace of the world?
1t can not do so. And yet there un-
derlies all of those transactions the
expectation on the part, for example,
of Rumania, and of Czecho-Slovakia,
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 United States
should insist upon being satisfied
that the settlements are correct? OBJ
serve, Mr.. Bratiano--and I speak of
his suggestions with the utmost re-
spect- suggested that we could not,
so to say, invade the sovereignty of
Rumania, an ancient sovereignty,
and make certain prescriptions with
regard to the rights of minorities.
But I beg him to observe that he is
overlooking the fact that he is ask
ing the sanction of the allied and as
sociated powers for great additions
of territory which come to Rumania
by the common victory of arms, and
that, therefore, we are entitled to
say: "If we agree to these addi-
tions of territory, we have the right
to insist upon certain guarantees of
peace
Right of Judgment.
beg my friend, Mr.. Kramer, and
my friend, Mr.. .Trumbio, and my
friend, Mr.. 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
unreasonable conditions, but that we
want the treaty to accord to us the
right of judgment as to whether
those are things which we can af-
ford to guarantee.
Therefore, the Impressions with
which we should disperse ought to be
these, that we are all friends-of
course, that goes without saying,
but that we must all be associates
in a. common effort, and there can be
no frank and earnest association in
the common effort unless there is a
common agreement as to what the
rights and settlements are. IS
. Now, if the agreement is aysepar-
ate agreement among groups of us,
that does not meet the object. If
you should adopt the language sug-
gested by the Czecho-Slovakian del
egates and the Serbian delegation
the Jugo-Slovak delegation-that it
should be left to negotiation between
the principal allied and associated
powers and their several delegates,
that would mean that, after this
whole conference is adjourned,
groups of them would determine
what is to be the basis of the peace
of the world. It seems to me that
that would be a most dangerous idea
to entertain, and, therefore, I beg
that we may part with a sense, not
of interference with each other, but
of hearty and friendly cooperation
upon the only possible basis Of guar
anty. Where the great force lies,
there must be the sanction of peace.
/ sometimes wish, in hearing an
argument like this, that l were the
representative of a small power so
that what 1 said might be robbed of
any mistaken significance, but I think
you will agree with me that the
United States has never shown any
temper of aggression anywhere, and
it lies in the heart Of the people Of
the United States, as / am sure it lies
in the hearts of the peoples of the
other great powers, to form COM
mon partnership of right and to do
service to our associates, and no
kind of disservice.
St. Louis, Oct. 11.-United States
Senator Se1den M Spencer in for