Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-25

cept President Wilson's guidance and direction with increasing reluctance We did not agree, We could not agree"
 Lansing says he did not resign his commission at that time because he felt it would create an embarrassing situation in the negotiations" of the peace treaty
 Accuses Big 4 of Secret Diplomacy or secret diplomacy. as practiced. Lansing says. by Wilson. Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando he writes:
 Everywhere there are developing bitterness and resentment against a secretiveness which is interpretd to mean failure. The patience of the people is worn threadbare. Their temper has grown ragged. They arc sick of whispering diplomats" Of Wilson's principle of "self-de- termination" Lansing says: "The phrase is simply loaded with dynamite. What effect will it have on the Irish, the Indians. the Egyptians and the nationalists among the Boers?
 It will raise hopes which can never be realized.
 MT. Wilson made il one of the bases of peace. And yet, m ! the negotiations at Paris and in the
 formulation of the foreign policy Of
 the United States. he has by his acts
 denied the existence or the right other
 than as the expression. of a moral
 preCept.
 { MT. Wilson even further discredit-
 ed the phrase by adopting a policy to-
 ward Russia which ignored the pIin-
 ciple."
 The principle of "selt-determina. tion" was in the original mutual
 guaranty" article GID, Lansing as serts, and was later eliminated when
 that article became the famous Arti- li cle x. The elimination was chiefly
 due to the opposition of the states
 men who represented the British em-
 pire in contradistinction to those who lrepresented the self-governing British , Dominions.
 . 'I do not know the arguments which were used to induce the president to abandon the phrase" , Ignorant of Inner Workings , Lansing admits that he knew little . of the inner workings of the peace , conference He says the president = made it clear he did not wish him to , take hand in shaping the League of . Nations. and intimated that he had
 better turn his attention to other mat , ters concerned with the peace nego- !. tiations.A
 However, other commissioners were , in the same boat, according 10 Lans- 2 ting. These were White and General r Bliss. The two American commits | sioners on the inside were Wilson and I House.
 Even Colonel Houses Office staff
 knew more about what was going on s than l did" Lansing explains He says he often was much embarrassed , when delegates of other nations. not . of the Big Five" preached peace ton
 ics to bim. ''I did not know what . Americas peace program was: did tJ not know that the president had one" s Lansing insists that, to make the , League of Nations possible, Wilson , surrendered to Japan, On the shan
 tung demands; 10 Italy on the annex 3 ation of the Austrian-peopIed province in the Alps; to Great Britain m the
 elimination of the self-determination principle, and to France. or the mill. tary protection treaty; and that he deserted the small nations and helped
 to make an "oligarchy Of the Great
 Powers"
 Tn his eagerness to make the , world safe for democracy ". says
 Lansing. he abandoned international democracy and became the advocate of international autocracy."