The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-12
OFFICIAL VERSION
 OF PARIS SPEECH
 OF WILSON GIVEN
Spencer Issues Statement De- claring Transcript Does Not Differ From Reports Which
 He Has Been Quoting
By Associated Press

and Senator Spencer. To support the Presidents declaration that Senator Spencers statement that Mr. Wilson had promised American military aid to Ru- mania and Serbia in case of an invasion House made public an official version of the Presidents remarks to the Serbian and Rumanian representatives at the Paris peace conference
 Senator Spencer, after reading this transcript said in a statement that there was no substantial difference between il and the official stenographic reports from which he had quoted. He reiterated that the President had promised military aid to ItHmania and Serbia and declared he would continue to make this assertion in his campaign for re-election.
 The senator again called on the White House to produce the official record of the Presidents address which was deliv- cred at the eight plenary session of the peace conference on May 31, 1919.
 Secretary Humility refused to answer or comment upon the senators statement.
 Meantime it was announced at the State Department that a cablegram had been sent to Paris requesting that the official peace conference record of the Pres- dents address be sent to Washington.
 
 say what use was to be made of this record and there was no comment from the White House.
 IL is understood that the President $ direction to the department to cable to Paris was given before the official version as made public today was re- ceived at the White House The version was volunteered by Fred A. Carlson of Chicago, who was an official stenogra- rher for the American peace delegation, Air. Carlson wrote that the transcript was taken from his notes taken in Paris, and that he would be glad to take oath as to it's accuracy.
 TEXT OF ADDRESS The text of President Wilson's address, as supplied, to the White House by Mir. Carlson follows:
 MT President: I should be very sorry to see this meeting adjourn with per- lnanent impressions, such as it is pos sble, have been created by some of the remarks that our friends have made should be very sorry to have the inn pression 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 au- thority. to exercise an undue influence ir these matters, and therefore, I want sto call your attention to one aspect of tfese questions which has not been dweit upon.
 we are trying to make peaceful settlement, that is to say. to eliminate tliose clements of disturbance, so far as possible which may interfere with the peace of the world. and we are try ing to make an equitable distribution of territories according to the race, the ethnographical character of the people nhabting those territo ories
 And back of that lies this fundamen- tetI fa tbaf xx-tn, fI,N Jn .cisions are made the allied and asso- cated powers guarantee to maintain them It is perfectly evident, upon a moments reflection, that the chief bur den of the war fell upon the greater powers, and if ithad not been for their action, their military action, we would o. be here to settle these questions. And 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 of the peace Of the world
 Tn those circumstances, it is unreason- able and unjust that not as dictators. 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 clements of disturbance unre- moved, which we believe will disturb the peace Of the world
 RIGHTS OF MINORITIES
 Take the rights of minorities. Moth ing, I venture to say is more likely to disturb the peace of the world than the treatment which might in certain circumstances be meted out to minori- ties. And, therefore, if the great pow CTS 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?
 T beg our friends from Roumania and from Serbia to remember that while Rumania and Serbia are ancient sov- ereignties. the settlements of this con- ference are greatly adding to their ter rtories. 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 Greats and the s,ovefis. as a single entity, and if this confer euce is going to recognize these various powers as new sovereigntes within def- mite territories, the chief guarantors are entitled to be satisfied that the terri torial settlements are of character to be permanent, and that the guarantees given are of a character to ensure the peace of the world
 II. is not, therefore, the interventions of those who would interfere but the action of those who would help. beg that our frlen0S VIII take that FleW or it. because I see no escape from that view of it.
 WHAT HE REALLY SAID
 .How can a power like the
 United states-fOr I can speak for
 no other-after signing this treaty.
 if It contains clements which they
 do not believe will be permanent.
 go 3,OOO miles away across the sea
 and report to it's people that ia has
 made . settlement of the pence
 of the world. It cannot do so. And
 yet there underIies nIi of these
 transaction the expectation on the
 part. for example. of Rumanin and
 of Cxecho- SlovakIn and of Serbia
 thnt if my covenants of this set
 tiement are not observed the nited
 states will send her armies and
 her navfes to that they are
 observed.
 .In those circumstances it is ur- reasonable that the United States should insist upon being satisfied that the settlements are correct? Ob- serve, MT. Bratiano-and I speak of lis suggestions with the utmost re- spect-sugge gested that we could not, so to say, invade the sovereignty of Eumania. an ancient sovereignty and make certain prescriptions with regard to the rights of minorities. But I beg him to observe that he is overlookipg the fact that he is asking the sanction of the allied and associated powers for great additions of territory. which comes to Rumania by the common vic tory of arms. and that, therefore, we are entitled to say:
 If we agree to these additions of