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WILSON HOLDS ARTICLE TEN IS
 LIFE OF PACT

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 to make such a declaration would certainly be work of supercroga- tion.
 "I am sorry to gay that reserva- tions that have come under my no- tice are almost without exception, not interpretation of the articles to which it is proposed to attach them, but in effect virtual notification of those articles.
 "Any reservation which seek to deprive the league of nations of the force of article 10 cuts at the very heart and life of the covenant it. self. Any league of nations which does not guarantee as matter of incontestable right the political in dependence and integrity of each of it's members might be hardly more than a futile scrap of paper, as in- effective in operation as the agree ment between Belgium and Germany which the Germans violated in 1914. Article 10, as written into the treaty of Versailles, represents the renunciation by Great Britain and Japan which before the war had be- gun to find so many interests in common in the, Pacific; by France; by Italy-by all the great fighting powers of the world, of the old pre- tensions of political conquest and territorial aggrandizement. It is a new doctrine in the worlds affairs and must be recognized, or there is no secure basis for the peace which the whole world so longingly desires, and so desperately needs. If article 10 is not adopted and acted upon, the governments which reject it., will, think, be guilty of bad faith to their people whom they induced to make the infinite sacrifices of the war by the pledge that they were fighting to redeem the world from the old order of force and aggres- sion.
 Renounce Ambition.
 "They will be acting also in bad faith in the opinion of the world at at large to which they appealed for support in concerted stand against the aggrcssions and pretensions of Germany. If we were to reject ar ticle 10, or so to weaken it as to take it's full force out of it, it would mark us as desiring to return to the old world of jealous, rivalry and mis- understandings, from which our gal lant soldiers have rescued us, and would leave us without any vision or new conception of justice and peace. We would have learned no lesson from the war, but gained only the regret that it had involved us in it's maelstrom of suffering. If Amer ica has awakened, as the rest of the world has, to the vision of new day in which the mistakes of the past are to be corrected, it will well come the opportunity to share the responsibilities of article 10.
 'It must not be forgotten, Senator that this article constitutes a renun- citation of wrong ambition on the part of powerful nations with whom we were associated in the war. It is by no means certain that without this article any such renunciation will take place. Militaristic ambi- tions and imperialistic policies arc by no means dead even in the coun- sells of the nations whom we must trust, and with whom we most de- sire to be associated in the talks of peace. Throughout the sessions of the conference in Paris it was evident that a militaristic party, under the most influential leadership. was seeking to gain ascendancy in the councils of France. They were de- fcatcd, then, but are in control now,
 Choice of ldeals.
 "The chief arguments advanced in Paris in support of the Italian claims on the Adriatic were strategic argu- ments, that is to say, military argu- ments, which had at their back the thought of naval supremacy in that sea. For my own part. I am as tole- rant of imperialistic designs on the part of other nations as I was of such designs on the part of Ger many.
 "The choice is between two ideals:
 "On the one hand, the ideal of democracy. which represents the rights of free peoples everywhere to govern themselves, and on the other hand, the ideal of imperialism, which seeks to dominate by force and un- just power. an ideal which is by no means dead, and which is earnestly held in many quarters still. Every imperialistic influence in Europe was hostile to the embodiment of ar ficIe n in tho cnvanant of the 1eaoua