The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-20
Bratiano;s Version
! OF Wilson Promise
Former Premier of Rumania
insists President Promised
Protection TO His Country.
Elk TRACTS OF SPEECH
Declares Wilson Said America
Would Send Army, and
Fleet if Necessary.
(5y NEWTON C. PARkE, Copyright,
1920, by the I. N. S,)

(5y NEWTON C. PARkE, copyrIaht
1920, by the |. N. 81
/ Paris. Oct. 2O.-Former Premier Bra.
\ tiano, OF Rumania, Joined the contro-
yersy between President Wilson and
senator Spencer today with the an
nouncement that the American presi-
| uent at the eighth plenary session of
The peace conference in Paris promised
70 send the American army and the
american fleet to Europe to guarantee
the treaty.
l The presidents memorable speech was
addressed directly to the Rumanian dele
cation (headed by NJ. Bratiano) and the
Jugo- -SlaVs.
NJ. Bratiano telegraphed his version
OF the incident to the Paris bureau of
the international News Service from
Bucharest.
| :, AS the former Rumanian premier was
directly addressed by President Wilson
he was asked by the International News
Service to give his personal account OF
the matter. M. Bratiano took occasion
70 assail President Wilson and his coll
laborators for debating the peace
treaty" He insists that the president
land his collaborators should now guar
lantee the security of the states "to
(which President Wilson dictated his
Former Premier Bratiano's telegram
Hun:
" In reply to your telegram. here are
passages from President Wilson's state
ment made at the plenary session of
the peace conference on May 81, 1919:
Promised Guarantee.
J." The allied and associated powers
Iwill guarantee to maintain as much as
possible the just conditions to which
they will have agreed. They take upon
themselves this engagement and natur-
lally upon them falls the principal re-
|sponsibility.
1T must not be forgotten that their
force Is the guarantee. The same argu-
|lntnt applies to their authority 1t is
|cn the same basis that the minority
|slates mentioned should understand that
me principal powers Will guarantee the
|Nery existence of these states.
jig 1t surprising under those con-
This demand since conditions which wei
regard as fundamentally just are in
question? The guarantee given to you
amounts to this: That the United
the ocean their army and their fleet.
1T is surprising under those con- |
dltions they desire a just solution of |
their different problems? We have as
surance that they can guarantee with |
all the forces at their disposal all the |
well as to U.S.
'' 1t Is the side which has the power
which will assure the maintenance Of |
peace and the supreme guarantee OF
peace will be on the side which has
this power.
International Democracy.
This completed the former premiers
version of President Wilson'S remarks.
The telegram continues:
Believing in international democracy
and consequently being in disagreement
with autccratic conception Of authority
of great powers, | did not have the |
honor OF receiving any further state
ments of private nature from Presi-
dent wilson
But Independent Of any declaration
the fact remains that President Wilson
and his collabOrators reduced the peace
conference to supreme council of the
great powers.
In assuming all the rights they con-
sequently assumed all the RESPONSE
bilities.
THE council not only openly i'm
posed its solution of all questions
brought up by the war, but proclaimed
political and economic affairs in GER
tain European states without reci-
procty.
only the sense OF justice OF the
great American people will recognize
that under such coercions Europe must
understand ipso facto America should
guarantee at least the security of the
states upon which President Wilson
imposed his will in their territorial set
Elements and in the organization of
heir domestic affairs. perhaps to the
ietriment of their peace and security"
M. Bratianos S dispatch was in French.
N order that it might be translated
nto English with absolute impartiality
I was given to the official translator OF
he United States peace delegation to
he peace conference. 1t was this OFF,
iial who translated from the French
he peace conference documents han
He'd by President Wilson and the other
- m berg of the American deleVation.