The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-11
Wilson Made No
 Promise TOScnd
 Army And Navy
Statement at Peace Conference Show That He Said That the Smaller Countries S Would Expect That the United States Would Do That.

would Do That.
 Washington, Oct. 1.-The White House made public today what was described as official version" of President Wilson's address at the eighth plenary session of the Paris peace conference. The exact word- ing, of this address, directed to the representatives of Roumania, Serbia and Czecho- -Slovakia, has been the subject of controversy between the president and Senator Spencer of MisSouriS
 The senator has declared in po- 1itical speech that the president had promised Roumania and Serbia that If any nation ever invaded their territory he would send. the American army across the seas to defend their boundary lines."
 MT. Wilson in a telegram to the l. senator said that this statement was false" In reply, Senator Spencer called for the official record, saying that the statement to which he had referred was in the "stenographic notes of the eighth plenary session, . in which the president was reported to have said!
 You must not forget that it is force that is the final guaranty of the peace of the world. If the world is again troubled the United States will send to this side of the ocean their army and their fleet"
 The presidents words as given in tne O1IfCldl VerSlOn HOLLOW. How can a power like the United States, for eXample--and l can speak for no other--after signing this treaty, if it contains elements which they do not believe will be permanent. go three thousand miles away across the sea and report to it's people that il has made settlement of the peace of the world It cannot 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 Ser bia, 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"
 of the presidents address was fur lnished to the White House last week lby Fred A. Carlson of Chicago, who was an official stenographer with the -' American peace delegation and who wrote that he would "be glad tc swear to the accuracy of the tran script.
 MT. Carlson's letter was addressed lthe Charles l.. Swem, stenographer tC the president. He explained that he had read Senator Spencer's reply tc rhe president in the Chicago news papers,; that he had just gone ovel his notes and that he could find "nt such statement as that attributed tC MT. Wilson by the senator. He added 'Hhat it was barely possible that thu quotation was from translation in 10 English of M MantouX'' transla lions sometimes mixed things up bit"
 "I wish I were in a position t make public what the president said, wrote MT. Carlson, flor feel that tn president is sadly misquoted, but o course as the meeting was secre one, I can say nothing"
 MT. Carlson's letter was made pub ,l lie by Secretary Tumulty with thi .comment:
 This letter speaks for itself'
 Senator Spencer in his reply t President Wilson's telegram said tn statement which he had attributed t the president was made upon tn floor of the Senate on February . 1920 by Senator Reed. and so far a have learned. has never been de nied until nOw.'
 In his speech of February ? Sena tor Reed quoted from a copyrighte syndicated article by Frank H. s. monds, which purported to give tn text of the Presidents address at tn Senator Johnson, Republican, Cal fornia, caused to be inserted in tn Congressional Record on December 1919.
 Along with MT. Carlson's transcriI the White House issued in parral, columns flor comparison" the vel sion of the Presidents speech { given in Mir. Simonds article as appears in the Congressional RecOr In the opposite column from tF official version of the president C words as previously quoted, appea, the following:
 How could the government of u United States go before the CoDgre [ of the people of the United States ar v pretend that it had assisted in insu ing the peace of the world, if it b 1icved that the settlement agreed upC here contained unstable or dangero1 alignmentS? If the world should troubled again, if the conditions whiC we regard as fundamental are cha 1enged. tho Suaranties which will given you will pledge that the Unitt States will send its army across u Ocean. Is it surprising under sut conditions that it should desire
 reach a. solution of the various pro ilems which seem to it satisfactory?
 In his letter Carlson says:
 Following is d transcrip. of r shorthand notes of President w session (secrc) of the peace confe ence, held at the QEai D'Crsay, Sa urday. May 31, 1919:
 " President, I should be very sor to see this meeting adjourn with pc unanent impressions such as it is DC 'sible have been created by some
 the remarks that our friends ha made. l should be very sorry to ha the impression lodged in your min that the great powers 6esi& to assul
 or play any arbitrary role in ths great matters, or Eis5;:T1e, because any pri':e of authority. to- exercise an Lriue influence m these natts and therefore i want to cali your Y tcntion tn one aspect of these qu u 1tons which has not beer dwelt up.
 "'We are trying to make a pea, (Conunued on Page Six)