Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-16
CHAPTER XXXV-COntinued
RenOrt CabIed to Paris

| ga full report OF this actlon was
| cabled to Europe, as a matter OF
course, and when the president ar
rived in Paris on March IA, ten days
| later, he was quick to learn OF the
disastrous consequences. The al
lies, eagerly accepting the orders of
the Republican majority, had lost
no time in repudiating the presi-
dent and the solemn agreements
that they had entered into with
him. The League of Nations was
now discarded and the plan adopted
for a preliminary peace with Ger
many was based upon frank oil
vision of the spoils, the reduction
of Germany to a slave state, and
the formation of a military alliance
by the allies for the purpose of
guaranteeing the gains. Not only
this, but an allied army was to
march at once to Russia to put
down the Bolshevists and the treaty
itself was to be administered by
the allied high command, enforcing
it's orders by an army OF occupa-
ton. The United Etates, as a rare
favor, was to be permitted to pay
the cost of the Russia expedition
and such other incidental expenses
as might arise in connection with
the military dictatorship that was
to rule Europe.
"While primarily the plan of
Foch and the other generals, it had
the approval of statesmen, even
those who were assumed to repre-
sent the liberal thought Of England
being neck-deep in the conspiracy.
Not a single party to the cabal had
any doubt as to it's success. Was
it not the case that the Republican
senator's, now in the majority,
spoke for America rather than the
president? Had the senators not
stated formally that they did not
want the League Of Nations, and
was the Republican party itself not
on record with the belief that the
allies must have the. right to i'm
pose peace terms of their own
choosing, and that these terms
should show no mercy to the "ac-
cursed Hum" -. The president
allowed himself just twwenty-four
hours in which to grasp the plot
in all of it's details, and then he
acted, ordering the issuance of this
statement:
""The president said today that
the decision made at the peace
conference in it's plenary SEES
sion, January rs, 1919, to the
effect that the establishment Of
a League of Nations should be
made an integral part of the
treaty of peace, is of final force,
and that there is no basis what
ever for the reports that a
change in this decision was con-
temDlated.
nounced, grudingly enough, that
! there would be g League of Nations
as an integral part of the peace
treaty. It was now the task of the
| president to take up the changes
that had been suggested by his
Republican enemies, and this was
| the straw that broke his back.
| There was not a single suggested
| change that had honesty back of it.
| The league was an association OF
| sovereigns, and as a matter of
| course any sovereign possessed the
right of withdrawal. The league
as an international advisory body
could not possibly deal with domes-
| tic. questions under any construc-
ton Of the covenant. No power OF
| congress was abridged, and neces
sarily congress would have to act
before war could be declared or a
single soldier sent out of the coun
try. Instead of recognizing the
Monroe doctrine as an American
policy, the league legitimized it as
a world policy. The president, how.
ever, was bound to propose that
these plain propositions be put in
Kindergarten language for the sat
isfaction of his enemies, and it was
this proposal that gave Clemenceau
Lloyd George and their associates a
| new chance for resistance.
Monroe Doctrine
"AIl of the suggested changes
were made without great demur un
til the question of the Monroe Doc
trine was reached, and then French
and English bitterness broke all re
straints. Why were they expected
to make every concession to Ameri
can prejudice when the president
would make none to European ira
ditions? They had gone to the length
| Of accepting the doctrine Of Monroe
for the whole of the earth, but now
because American pride demanded
it, they must make public confes
sion Of Americas right to give or
ders. No! A thousand times no! II
was high time for the president tt
give a little consideration to French
and English and Italian prejudices-
| time for him to realize that the
lives Of these governments were al
stake as well as his own, and that
Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Son
nino had parliaments to deal with
that were just as unreasonable as
the congress of the United States
If the president asked, he must be
willing to give.
GAS if at a given signal, France
renewed her claim for the Rhine
valley and the Saar basin, Italy
clamored anew for Fiume and the
Dalmatian coast, and Japan, break
ing a long silence, rushedNto the fore
with her demand for Shantung If
fee simple and the right of her ma
tionals to full equality in tie United
States"