New-York tribune., 1920-10-12
White House Report Not
Substantially Different
From His Statement.
the 5 ator Insists
DenOunces DelliaIs
As Mere Quibbling
Paris Speech Is Declared
To Be a Concrete Illus
tration of Article X
Special Dispatch to The Tribl


ST. LOUIS, Oct. Ex-senator Selden
P. Spencer, whose assertion that Presi-
dent Wilson promised martial aid to
Rumania and Serbia was recently
called false by Mr.. Wilson, comment
ing to-day on the version Of the Presi-
dents controversial remarks, given out
by the White House as official, said
there was no substantial difference be-
tween this report and others from
which the Senator had quoted in his
! speeches.
Nothing" said Senator Spencer,
"can conceal the pledge which the
President attempted to make for this
country, by which American soldiers
are to be sent overseas whenever the
world IS again troubled Senator
Spencers statement reads:
"The report of Mr. Carlson, which
the President now publishes. as to
what the President said on May 81.
1919, at the eighth plenary session of
the peace conference, fully bears out
what was said by Herbert Adams
Gibbons and supported by Frank H.
Slmonds. and what was written by
that great author, Dr.. L. J. Dillon, in
his book, The Inside Story of the
Peace Conference and what was sup
ported by Paul d. Cravatn, the eminent
lawyer of New York, who was one of
the expert advisers for the United
States in Paris.
Il quoted what these gentlemen said
and shall continue so to do.
No Difference in Substance
There is no difference in substance
between the report now made public
by the President and the official
stenographic report from which
quoted. The only difference is that
this last report surrounds the clear
statement which the President made
that an American army and navy would
be sent overseas when the occasion
arose. by some general remarks which
do not in the least conceal the fact
of what the President said.
Nothing can conceal the pledge
which the President attempted to make
for this country by which American
soldiers are to be sent overseas when
ever the world is again troubled
This pledge he attempts to make
most clearly in Article x of the League
of Nations. and what the Pres dent
said to the Rumanians and Serbs on
May 81, 1919, is nothing more than
concrete illustration of the very
priGcjpls ri ;cjp which he announces in
In the statement which the Presi-
dent has just issued he says:
80. if any covenants of this
settlement are not observed the United
States will send her army and navies
to see that they are Observed
"ln the official stenographic record
the President is quoted as saying: If
/ the world is again troubled, if the
conditions we all regard as funda-
mental are upset and contested, the
guaranty which is given you means
that the United States will send to this
side Of the ocean their army and their
navy
French Copy Confirms Fact
"The French copy of what the Presi-
dent said May 81, 1919, as reported by
The New York Tribune, translated
reads substantially the same:
If the world finds itself troubled
anew, if the conditions which we all
regard as fundamental are again drawn
into question, the guaranty which is
given you will mean that the United
States will send to this side Of the
ocean their army and their navy
"The statement which DR.. E. J.
Dillon makes in his book, referred to
above, is
"'We guarantee your boundaries
and your territories; that means that
we will send over arms, ships and men
in case of necessity
''In the article by Mr.. Frank Simonds
the President is quoted as saying:
"'If the world should be troubled
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