The New York herald., 1921-05-03
TUESDAY, MAY 3. 1921.
The Prediction Is Verified.

Democratic source III the Senate COm-
mittee on Foreign Relations there
comes an unqualified tribute to the
statement to his fellow American
citizens on March 4, 1919, at the
Metropolitan Opera House in this
town. The event is altogether too
impressive to pass unnoticed by THE
New YORK HERALD.
What Mr.. WILSON predicted two
years and two months ago, when
announcing his intention to 60 back
TO Paris "to tell the people on the
other side of the water that an over
whelming majority of the American
people is in favor of the League of
Nations was this:
when that treaty 1.-THE Treaty of
versaillesl comes back. gentlemen
on this side will find the Covenant
not only In it, but SO many threads
Of the treaty tied to the Covenant
that you cannot dissect the Covenant
from the treaty without destroying
the whole vital structure"
This may be regarded as boast
or it may be regarded as threat.
but it is certainly a prediction. No
utterance by Mr.. WILSON during his
entire career has entered more fully
into the public knowledge. And he
! was right.
The Republican chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Relations now
confirms Mr.. WILSON'S prediction of
March 4, 1919. Senator LODGE is
quoted as saying on Sunday:
'The Covenant is so intertwined
with the treaty that 1t will require
on the best calculations have been
able to make at least seventy-two
amendments to get the League out
OF IL. And when we have got the
League out of it nothing but shell
remains"
Senator SHIELDS of Tennessee, n
anu OllC LnG dblGNd 10 ~
yers in Congress, takes precisely the
same view of the success Of Mr.. WIZ
SONS tying and Interviewing and
INTERVIEWING process:
THE authority Of the League OF
Nations so permeates and honey
combs the Versailles Treaty that It
Is impossible to have the treaty
exist without the League"
That is the situation President
WILSON labored with ardor and in
genuity to bring about in 1919. and
he succeeded. That is the situation
ne foretold, and his prophecy has
come true. On his own RESPONSE
bility, against the wishes Of most of
the statesmen Of the Allied and Asso-
ciated Powers in conference at Paris,
against the judgment of some or all
OF the Americans nominally associ-
ated with him for the making OF
peace, he contrived TO tie up the
Covenant with the Treaty OF Yer.
sailles by so many threads that the
Covenant cannot now be dissected
from the treaty without destroying
the whole vital structure.
Mr.. WILSON was wildly wrong in
his proclaimed belief that an over
whelming majority Of the American
people was with him in demanding
the Covenant and the League. Il
know that that Is true" he said al
the same time, when alleging the
practical unanimity Of American sen
timent Ia favor Of the Covenant.
When he made this question Of the
League the Issue In last years Pres
idential election the American peo
pie said mol by about seven million
majority. But the failure Of purely
political prognostication detracts ir
/. no way from the brilliancy Of the
rerification of his prediction about
the threads and the tying.
His experiment at Interviewing has
succeeded, but al what cost to this
country and TO the world