Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-11
Refutes Reeds
Version Of
Paris Talk.
REPORTER SENDS
IN HIS ACCOUNT
Writes He Is Certain
Chief E:recuHue Has
Been Misquoted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The White House made public today
what was described as an official Ver-
sion" of President Wilson's address at
the eighth plenary session OF the
Paris peace conference. The exact
wording Of this address. directed to
the representatives of Rumanla, Ser
bia and Czechoslovakia. has been the
subject of controversy between the
President and Senator Spencer, re-
publican, Missouri.
The senator has declared in a po-
litical speech that the President had
promised Rumania and Serbia that If
any nation ever invaded their terri
tory he would send the American
Army across the seas to defend their
word. Of omcial Version.
Mr.. Wilson in a telegram to the sem
ator on October said that this state
ment was false" In reply Senator
Spencer called for the official record,
saying that the statement to which
graphic 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 peace of
the world. If the world is again trou-
this side of the ocean their Army and
their feet"
The Presidents words as given in
the Official version follow:
How can a power like the United
States. for example-and I 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 direct to it's people that
Of the world? 1t cannot do so. And
yet there underlies all of these
transactions the expectation on the
part, for example. OF Rumania and of
Czechoslovakia and of Serbia, that If
any covenants of this settlement are
send her armies and her navies to see
that they are observed"
FurnisheA BY StenograpAers.
The ef3cial version of the full text
of the Presidents address was fur
nished TO tho White House last week
by Fred A Carlson of Chicago. who
was an official stenographer with the
wrote that he would 'be glad to
swear to the accuracy Of the tran
script.
Mr.. CaSison's letter was dated Octo-
Der and was addressed to Charles L.
Sven. stenographer to the Present
He explained that he had read Sena-
tor Spencer's reply to the President
In the Chicago newspapers; that he
had just gone over his notes and that
he could dnd mo such statement" as
that attributed to Mr.. Wilson by the
senator. He added that it was barely
possible that the quotation "was from
q, translation into English Of NJ Man
teux's translation into French of the
Presidents remarks, and. as you know.
the translations sometimes mixed things
UP a Bit
IT wish I were in a position to make
nnh1ic what the Proqiderf il vyrofo
Mr.. Carlson, for / feel that the Presi-
dent is sadly misquoted, but, of course.
as the meeting was a secret one, !
can say nothing"
Mr.. Carlsons letter was made public
by Secretary Tumulty, with this COM
ment:
This letter speaks for itself"
Spencer citea aReed.
Senator Spencer II his reply to
President Wilson's telegram of Octo-
Der said the statement which he had
made upon the floor of the Senate
on February 2, 1920. by Senator Reed.
and SO far as I have learned has
never been denied until now"
In his speech of February 2. Sem
ato. Reed quoted from a copyrighted
syndicated article by Frank H. Simonds
which pnrported to give the text of
plenary session and which Senator
Johnson. republican, California,
caused to be inserted into the Con-
gressional Record on December 4.
1919.
Along with Mr.. Carlson's transcript
columns "for comparison" the version
of the Presidents speech as given in
Mr.. Simonds' article as it appears in
the Congressional Record.