The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-24
STICKS TO ERROR
AFTER CORRECTED
Wilson Repeats Statement
After Conceding
Mistake
WINKED AT SHANTUNG
Made Agreements With 9th
or Powers without Con
sulting VIII of Congress

uy a. r. srENCEH
A. alI the world knows. tho pro-
vince of Shpn'u9s v1s given 60 ia
pan by the wilson league of ma
tlous treaty ot N,muup-
ON september o. ln1o, al 49, Louia
Mr. wilson attempted tn Justify hts
conyrriluE 'p give IluNu thirty mil
Hons az Chiuntc by saying ID was
necessary B. order 900 Induce Japan
10 ,utur emo var 1guInSt Germany,
lie HI3.
"Gr,a, ur,a,n. ana WTS--
uurnuy France ua everybody
know. Iu Hrdor to make 10 more
certain that Japan would come
into mo war and $50 assist 30 clear
tho Pacific OF the German fleet,
had promised that any rights
thar Germany had In china Hhuuld
i'm cap, OF victory OF tho allies,
pass To- Japan"
on the following day Senator Nor
ris iu telegram to tho president,
called his attention To tho fact that
the secret treaty of England giving
Ehnntuug to Japan was not mndo uu-
~ March g. 1911, moro than two
years after Japan had entered tn"
war, and that az that time there
was not n German ship afloat on the
Pacific, due to the vigilance OF Great
Britain.
ON September ~. 1919 Mr.. Will
son sent the following telegram to
Senator Norris.
Garrison. Mont. Sept. II, 1919.
Hon. @. w. Norris
United states Senate,
Washington, II. e.
thank you for correcting an
unintentional inaccuracy In one OF
my recent speeches,
Woodrow wilson"
Eight days after sending the
above telegram to Senator Norris,
thanking him for correcting his mis-
statement. Mr.. Wilson, on September
90. at Los Angeles. made the same
assertion that he had made In st.
Louis. He then said
'ln the meantime, after this
present war began, England and
France, feeling that II was es-
sential that they should have the
assistance OF Japan on the Pacific
agreed that II Japan would go In
to the war and take whatever
Germany had in the Pacific. she
should retain everything north OF
tho equator"
22, Mr.. Wilson said:
Again, at Reno. New, September
Great Britain and France en-
torcd into solemn covenants OF
treaty with Japan that II she
would come into the war and CON
tinue her operations against Ger
many in the Pacific. they would
lend their whole Influence and
power TO the cession TO Japan OF
everything that Germany had In
the Pacific"
The same statment was made by
Mr.. Wilson in n speech at Salt Lake
City on September 80, and again In
n speech at Cheyenne on September
"a. All this after HIS attention had
been called to his misstatement at
ST. Louis,
Tho plain facts are that shantung
was not promised to Japan by the
allies until two years and more after
Japan had been engaged In the war.
SO the presidents explanation is, to
say the least. somewhat awry.
During the time the Versailles
peace conference was I'm session, Ru-
mania and Serbia became worried,
and thir representatives asked Mr..
Wilson what under the propose A
league of nations would be the duty
of the United states II these coun
tries should be attacked. Mr.. VII
sons reply was as follows:
"If the world should be trou-
bled again. IL tho conditions which
we all regard as fundamental are
challenged, the guarantee which
will be given TO you dn tho leagu0
OF nations cOvenauD will pledgo
that the United States will send
It's army and fleet across the
ocean"
This answer Of Mr.. Wilson wa,
taken down by tho official reporter
or the convention at the time II wa,
delivered. II has been quoted and
discussed In the public press of al
countries. and It has never been de
nied, uniil a few days since, whcI
Mr.. Wilson repudiated the officla
report.
Under date OF October 3, 1919. n
telegram to the junior senator
from the state OF Missouri, Mr.. Wi
son denies that he ever made tn,
statmont to the Rumanians ana tn,
serbs quoted above aud reported h,
tho official stenoErRphor.
In a public statement given TO tn,
press OF the country dated October
J, 1920, Mr.. Wilson says:
There is nothing IN the cove
hunt which In the least intcrfcrcs
with or tmpairs the right OF cpu-
gress To declare war or not. uc-
onrding ~ its Judgment"
f"t In = tclrrram TO his score
May 10, 1919, Mg Wilson says:
~ have promised 10 pronoge IN
thc senate supplement, in which
we ShNu agree. subject tu the ap-
pCoEol OF The council OF the league
OF NlluuS. 90 come immediately