The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-10-07
DEMANDS
PRESIDENT GIVE OUT
HIS SECRET SPEECH
Insists Wilson Did Pledge
Aid to Rumania When
in Paris

hat President Wilson had made al
statement a. the peace conference
promising Rum. uia II Serbia Am
erlcan military assistance under the
proposed league OF nations covenant,
United States Senator James A. Reed
Of Missouri, democrat, sent a tele-
gram TO Senator Selden p. Spencer.
his republican colleague, declaring
that the statement wal a matter OF
record n suggestinR that the pfcsi-
dent produce the photographic re-
ports OF the peace conference show
ing 'just what was said"
senator Reeds telegram wal In re-
Spouse TO one from Senator Spencer
asking information on the subject.
Senator Reeds message declared the
statement was made by the president
in an address before the peace con-
ference May 81. 1919, but did not
/ get by the censor until December ..
1919, when II was brought to tits
country by n newspaper correspond
ent and published In The Washington
star OF that date.
The speech also appeared In fun
In Tn Congressional Record OF De-
cemher 4, 1919" tho telegram con-
tinued. adding that II also was copy
Tighted by a newspaper syndicate
and given wide circulation through
out tho country.
Statement Never Challenged.
ION several occasions / challenged
tho attention Of the senate to this
speech" the telegram said. MY
speeches by scores OF thousands were
circulated through the country. Nu-
merous publicists and speakers have
repeatedly referred TO and comment
I'd upon this declaration. Its au-
thanticity was disputed In tho
senate or elsewhere to my knowledge
until MIR. Tumulty recently denied II
rs false. The speech bears upon its
face evidence Of its authenticity as IL
Is couohed In the we'll known phrase
oiogy OF the president. In View OF
these facts a discerning public will
not be inclined to accept Mr.. Tumul-
ty's denial. There Is one way this
dispute can be settled. Let h presi-
den produce tho st~enographlc rec
crdB OF the peace conference show
ing just what was said. These ofi-
ciai reports have been studiously sup
pressed and Kept secret although the
senate foreign relations committee
asked expressly for them. II was
stated by clemenceau's private secre-
tary that the reason the sessions We're
held in secret was becnuse the presi-
dent OF the United States insisted up
on II as against Clemenceau's own
Judgment.
That the latter statement is alb
solutely correct is shown by the
testimony of Secretary Lansing given
before the foreign relations COM
mittce OF the senate on August s.,
1919"
senator Reed also gave out a state
ment saying:
What now do We understand
That President Wilson now means
we are under obligations TO send IA
armies to protect Rumania and other
members Of the league against at
tack2
1T 80. what becomes of article ten
which he declares is tho heart Of the
c~ovennnt?'
Assiils Article Ten.
After all Senator Reed con-
tinued, this controversy Is imma-
teriai. Article ten of the league eX-
piicity provides that we undertake to
PRESERVE against external aggression
the territorial integrity and indie
~pendence OF other members of the
league. That means we join the
league therefore to defend Rumania
and Serbia against attack and pre-
serve their existing political indie
pendence. That obligation may at
any ume call upon us TO send our
armies and navies across The ocean.
This is just what the president in
his speech IS alleged to ave prom
ised. The statements are as alike as
two eggs laid by tho same chicken.
Besides that, the president de-
minded at a time Wien he regarded
our into the league as GER
tain. a standing army Of $4,000
men; universal draft for all boys as
soon as they arrive at the g OF is;
enactment of laws 10 enable the
president 10 hpply the draft 10 all
persons between IS and 45 Whenever
the United States should be engaged
IN war; $4,000 sailors and marines
for the navy and on appropriation of
soi3 100000 10 build the greatest
fleet OF war vessels ever attempted
at one time.
The presidents secretary OF war,
Mr.. Baker. and Chief OF Stan General
March. both testified before con-
gressional committees that this i'm
mense military establishment as nee
essary In order TO redeem our obliga-
tom