The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-04
CHAPTER NIX.

CHAPTER NIX.
on october 6, 1918, Germany sued
,,r mace. After three weeks OF
correspondence, made public day by
d,, President Wilson informed Ger
many that the allies were ready to
Sopclude peace on the basis of the
,orps SET out above. Such the
clear straight road which led from
tbo formation Of Europe's war aims
i, 1Qi6 and 1917 and their indorse-
r1ent hy the United States I'm 1919
to the armisticc in the beginning of
Noyember. 1919, and to peace. Never
had a policy been clearer, more
onop. and more coherent. Everybody,
before even the negotiations began,
knew the objective sought The
peaco. with all It's principles and all
its consequences, appeared clearly
before the eyes OF tho nations, long
ere it was drawn up and signed by
the ncgotiators,
In other words, the peace was
born Of the origin and character OF
tho war itself 1t was willed by
The peoples before formulated by
Tho governments. IL was formu-
lated by the governments as early as
the end OF 1916 in harmony with
The instinct OF the peoples and when.
at the beginning OF 1918, the United
states In turn declared its concep-
tion of the peace 1t only emphasized
principles which neither AnuriCa
nor anybody else could have varied,
FOR they were OF the very nature
of things dictated by circumstances.
Such being It's source, the peace
could not be a peace of conquest and
OF Imperialism. IL II was not a
peace of conquest, IL is not because
OF the fourteen points, nor because
mu wilson forced his "iA upon Eu-
rope. nor because the allied govern
ments bowed before America
through weakness or lack OF fore
sight. 70 Is because Mr.. Wilson in
his fourteen points, his speeches, like
the allies declarations OF 1916 and
1917, like the resolutions of the
French parliament OF the same year,
had merely obeyed the dictates OF
history had merely registered the
will Of the warning peoples; II Is be-
cause the peace of victory, offspring
o. war, had necessarily to confirm
and not to repudiate the ideals for
which the war was fought.
The peace derives its whole char
acter from this unanimity of pur-
pose. And II in all OF its chapters
whether they deal with frontiers or
with new states, whether they deal
with reparations or the internal at
fairs of nations--this character re-
appears one may regret and disap-
prove, IL one Is OF a Bismarckian or
OF an imperialist turn of mind, but
nobody has the right to be aston
ished For all through the war, all
the allies without exception, obedient
to the peoples WILL had constantly
proclaimed that, when victory was
won, the peace would be made ex-
aCtly as II was made,
The conference meets. The men
and the materials are gathered. The
work awaits. What method shall be
followed? In the early part of
January, the French declaration had
proposed a general plan of pro
cedure which NJ. Clemenceau had
asSed me TO prepare.
Under this plan So groups were
formed including in addition to the
plcnipOtentiaries, men representing
every type Of human activity, law
yers, financiers, historians, manufac-
turers business men. administrators
professors, journalists, soldiers and
sailors who brought a wide persona
experience to every problem with
the results OF the preliminary stud.
les IN which nearly ali OF them had