Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-11
MILITARY AID
CHARGE MET BY
THE PRESIDENT
Full Report of Wilson's State
maHt at Peace Conference
Session Given Public.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.-As refuta
tIon of the charge by Senator Spencer,
Republican, Missouri, that President Will
son promised Roumania and Serbia Amer
lean military aid, In men and ships, dur
ing his participation in the peace con-
ference, a transcript of a stenographic
report Of the Presidents utterances at a
secret plenary session OF the confer
ence on May 81, 1919. was made public
today at the White House.
The President was quoted in this re-
port as having stated at the session:
How can power Ike the United
States. for example--for l can speak for
no other-after sfxning this treaty, il it
contains elements which they do not be-
lieye viii be permanent, go 5000 miles
away across the sea and report to its
people that it has made a settlement OF
a peace of the world9
II can not do so.
"And yet there underlies all OF these
transactions the expectation on the part,
for example, of Roumania and Of Czecho-
Slovakia and of Serbia, that il any cove
nant Of this settlement are not observed,
the United States will send her armies
and her navies to see that they are OBJ
served"
PEACE GUARANTEE
REPORT Quoted
The President was also quoted as hav-
ing stated:
1--WE must not close our eyes to the
fact that in the last analysis the mill
tary and naval strength Of the great
powers will be the final guarantee OF
the peace Of the world"
Other language attributed to the Presi-
dent was as follows:
1--WE are trying to make a peacetii
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 make an equitable distribution OF ter
tories according to the race, the ethno-
graphical character of the people inhabit-
ing those territories, and back of that
lies this fundamentally important fact
that when the decisions are made, the
allied and associated powers guarantee
to maintain them.
at is perfectly evident, upon a mo-
ment's reflection, that the chief burden
OF their maintenance will fall upon the
greater powers, and IL it had not been
for their action, their military action,
we would not be here to settle these
questions ."
Under Secretary of State Davis an
nounced today that word has been re-
ceived from Paris that the oftoicia1 stem
Ographic report of the eighth pienary
session of the peace conference is being
compiled for transmission to the State
Department and will be made public
upon receipt.
He stated that the stenographic notes
taken in English will be regarded as Of
fetal and yentured the opinion that the
official report will correspond to that
issued by the White House today.
The stenographic report quoted was
contained in a letter addressed by it's
author, F. A. Carlson, 1101 Ashland
block, Chicago, to Charles NJ. Sven,
now stenographer to the President,
which was attached to a preliminary
statement issued by Joseph P. Tumulty,
the Presidents secretary.
STATEMENT Gss.ss,
BY TUMULTY.
Tumulty's only comment was:
1.-THE letter speaks for itself"
1t was understood the President read
the Carlson letter before 1t was given
out at the White House.
There was a wide divergence between
the Carlson report and the Johnson YER
sion, At was pointed out by Administers
tion officials.
They echoed Mr.. Tumulty's statement:
1.-THE (Carlson's) letter speaks for it.
self"
Carlson said he had read Spencer's and
Reeds statements and then had gone
over his notes.
He said: II can find no such statement
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