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or * it of what On which the old lines of inter- | nal relationship , followed so intricate a 4 for the most part by historical inued From Page characterization of its | One and purpose ‘one sense, no doubt, there is no that I should report to you| Was attempted You have been daily ¢ was going on there with which the peace | 1 to deal and of the} of laying done at ni of and down straight of settlement anywhere on a and the new pattern t so cireumstanc dominated action, even where have been best to ignore o: them. ‘ePoss-currents of polities and t must have been evident Tt would be presuming in attempt to explain the ques ich arose or the many di elements that entered into I shall attempt something bitious suggested by my duty to re-) congress the part it the than that, and more { necessary for my colleagues to play as representatives of pent of the United States. was dictated by the role had played in the war and expectations that had been dm the minds of the peoples | we had associated our that great struggle, Right in Jeopardy ‘United States entered the war different footing from every | tion except our associates on of the sea. our ly threa! ‘We entered it, aterial interests ned or because treaty obligations to ‘we were only parties tad been vio- because we saw the y, and even the validity, of here put in jeopardy government likely to be ev. imperiled by the intoler- of a power which re b@ neither right nor obligation, whose very system of govern: d the rights of the citi rainst the autocratic author- ernment. | in the ei for ition settlements of the have sought no special ourselves, but only of right and the as- of liberty everywhere that ts of the settlement were We entered the war as interested d we champions of interested ourselves ‘terms of peace in no other Hope at Low Ebb “hope of the nations central the lob mn to powers were ebb when our sol- pour across the sea. was everywhere amongst in their stoutest spir- foreboding of disas- ended in November, ago, but you have what was feared in last, four short months to realize ‘that our timely aid ac: like for their morale cal safety. , Never-to-be-forgotten B St Chateau Thierry had al- a upon place. Our redoubta- and marines had al- the gap the enemy in opening for their * Paris—had already | the tide of battle back the frontiers of France and rout that was to save and the world, back; t there _ Anxious B spirits Thereafter were to be always were never to lully forward again, was no confident men and women, of France, attended alliea| Presi ) | the |July last year in Parts out of erous courtesy—-with no heart festivity, little zest for hor But they came away with some- | thing new at their hearts; they have| themselves told us so, The mere sight of our men—of their vigor, of the | | confidence that showed itself in evory |movement of their stalwart figures and every turn of their swinging march, in their steady, comprehend ling eyes and easy discipline, in the Jindomitable air that added spirit to |everything they did—made everyone |who saw them that memorable day realize that something had happened that was much more than a mere lineident in the fighting; something | very different from the mere arrival of fresh troops. i} celebration of the Fourth of on- | or Great Moral Force A great moral force had flung it-| self into the struggle. The fine phys: | teal force of those spirited men spoke | of something more than bodily vigor. | |They carried the great ideals of | jfree people at their hearts, and that) with that vision unconquerable. | Their very presence brought reas: | surance; their fighting made victory) certain | ‘They were recognized as crusad-| ers, and as their thousands swelled to mean salvation, And they were fit men to carry such a hope and| make good the assurance it fore-| cast, Finer men never went into |battle; and their officers were worthy of them which to utter a eulogy of the ar) perhaps, since I am speaking of} their mission, I may speak also of, the pride I shared with every Amer-| ican who saw or dealt with them| there. They were the sort of men America would wish to be. repre man would wish to claim as fellow: countrymén and comrades in a great cause rm | They were terrible in battle, and gentle and helpful out of it, remembering the mothers and the sisters, the wives and the little children at home, They were free men under arms, not forgetting their ideals of duty in the midst of tasks of vio lence. I am proud to have had the privilege of @eing associated with them and of calling my- self their leader. But I now speak of what they meant to the men by whose sides| they fought and to the people with! whom they mingled with such utter) simplicity as friends who asked only to be of service. They were for all the visible embodiment of America. What they did made America and all that she stood for a living real- ity in the thoughts not only of the of millions of men and women thru: out all the toiling nations of a) world standing everywhere in peril of its freedom and of the loss of| everything it held “dear; in deadly | fear that its bonds were never to be loosed, its hopes forever to be mocked and disappointed. And the compulsion of what they stood for was upon us who repre- sented America at the peace table. It was our duty to see to it that/ every decision we took part in con-{ tributed, so far as we were able to influence it, to quiet the fears and realize the hopes of the peoples | who had been living in that shadow, the nations that had come by our| assistance to their freedom. It was our duty to do everything that was within our power to do to make the triumph of freedom and of) right a Jasting triumph in the as- surance of which men might ev- erywhere live without ‘fear. Old Entanglements Old entanglements of every kind stood in the way—promises which governments had made to one an- lother in the days when might and |right were confused and the power of the victor was without restraint. Engagements which contemplated any dispositions of territory, any of sovereignty that we | Map of Newest German Republic Here is the newest German republic. Darmstadt is its capital, Wilich its presi- ‘This is not the occasion upon! dent, according to dispatches. It’s just over the Rhine and north of Bavaria, Nassau are within its borders, mies America sent to France, but| might seem to be to the interest/ rule, enforcing not obedience, but of those who had the power to in- sist upon them had been entered into without thought of what the peoples concerned might wish or profit and these could not al- ways be honorably brushed aside sented by; the sort of men every|It was not easy to graft the new/ order of ideas on the old, and some of the fruits of the grafting may, I fear, for a time be bitter, But, with very few exceptions, the men who sat with us at the peace table desired as sincerely as did to get away from the bad influence, the illegitimate purposes, the demoralizing ambitions, the in- ternational counsels and expedi- ents, out of which the sinister de- signs of Germany had sprung as a natural growth. It had been our privilege to form ulate the principles which were cepted as the basis of peace, we but |they had been accepted not because} we had come to hasten and assure the victory and insisted upon them, but because they were readily ac ceded to as the principles to which honorable and enlightened minds everywhere had been bred, They spoke the conscience of the world as well as the conscience of people of France, but also of tens| America, and 1 am happy to pay) my tribute of respect and gratitude to the able, forward-looking men with whom it was my privilege to cooperate for their unfailing spirit of co-operation; their constant effort to accommodate the interests they represented to the principles we all reed upon. ‘The difficulties, which were many, lay in the circumstances, not often in the men. Almost without excep- tion the men who led had caught the true and full vision of the problem of peace as an indivisible whole, a problem not of mere ad. justments of interests, but of justice and right action. Hopes of Small Nations The atmosphere in which the con- ference worked ggemed created, not by the ambitions of strong govern- ments, but by the hopes and aspira- tions of smali nations and of peoples hitherto under bondage to the power that victory had shattered and de- | stroyed. The two great empires had been forced into political bankruptcy, and we were the receivers. Our task was not only to make peace with the central empires and done. The central empires had lived in open violation of many of the very rights for which the war had been fought, dominating alien peoples over whom they had no natural right to Children Love Them Instinétively they crave this wheat food with its taste of salt. And indeed nothin; dainty Snow Fla g could be better for. them than crisp, Don’t ask for Crackers---say Snow Flakes 7 Your grocer has them. ; jand dent’s Speech to Senat e a") Hease, Upper Hesse and Hesse | members ASKS WILSON. FOR PROTESTS Borah Requests Information| in Japan Land Award WASHINGTON, July 10.-—Imme- diate after President Wilson the senate chamber Senator Bor mpatible with public in letters and protests from of the peace commission relative to Shantung. | The resolution asks particularly for} a letter of protest alle to have terest,” y Lansing and Henry White of the peace commission. ‘The president is also asked to sub- mit any memorandum available which would indicate that Japan at: | tempted to coerce Chinese delegates trative arrangements could not be assured if the treaty were to pro: vide no permanent common interna tional agency, if its execution tn such matters was to be left to the slow and uncertain processes of co operation by ordinary methods of negotiation, if Ue peace conference itself was the end of cooperative authority veritable bondage; exploiting those who were the weals for the benefit of those who were masters and over- lords only by force of arms. There could be no peace until the whole order of Central Europe was set right. That meant that new nations were to be created—Poland, Czecho-Slova | kia, Hungary ttself. No part of an | cient Poland had ever in any true sense become a part of Germany or of Austria or of Russia, Bohemia was alien in every thought and hope | to the monarchy of which she had so long been an artificial part; and the uneasy partnership between Aus tria and Hungary had been one rather of interest than of kinship-or sympathy, ‘The Slavs, whom Austria had chos- en to force into her empire on the south, were kept to their obedience by nothing but fear, ‘Their hearts were with their kinsmen in the Bal kans. These were all arrangements of power, not arrangements of natur- | al union or association, It was the | imperative task of those who would | make peace and make it intelligently to establish a new order which would | rest upon the free choice of people | rather than upon the arbitrary au thority of the Hapsburgs or Hohen- zollerns. More than that great populations bound by sympathy and actual kin to Rumania were also linked against their will to the conglomerate Aus. tro-Hungarian monarchy or to other alien sovereignties, and it was part of the task of pence to make a new Rumania, as well as a new Slovic state clustering about Serbia. Han Colonies Perpiex And no natural frontiers could be | found to these new fields of adjust ment and redemption, It was neces story to look constantly forward to other related tasks. The German colonies were to be disposed of. They had to be governed; they had been exploited merely, without thought of the interest, or even the ordinary hu- man rights, of their inhabitants. The Turkish empire, moreover, had fallen apart, as the Austro-Hun. garian had. It had never had any real unity, It had been held togeth- er only by pitiless, inhuman force, until its people cried aloud for re- lease, for succor from unspeakable distress, for all that the new day of | hope seemed at last to bring within ts dawn, | Peoples hitherto in utter darkness were to be led out into the same light and given at last a helping hand, Undeveloped peoples and peoples ready for recognition, but not yet ready to assume the full responsibil- ities of statehood, were to be given adequate guarantees of friendly pro- tection, guidance and assistance. Limit Military And out of the execution of these great enterprises of liberty sprang opportunities to attempt what states- men had never found the way before to do; an opportunity to throw ssafe- guards about the rights of radical, national and religious minorities by |solemn international covenant; an opportunity to limit military establishments Where they were most likely to be mischievous; an opportunity to effect a complete systematic internationalization of waterways were necessary to the free economic clear many of the normal channels of commorce of unfair obstructions welcome opportunity to secure for labor the concerted protection of def. inite international pledges of prin ciple and practice. These were not tasks which the conference looked about it to find They were inseparable from the set tlements of peace, They were thrust upon it by circumstances which| Jcould not be overlooked. The war| had created them, In all quarters | of the world old established rela tionships had been disturbed or broken and affairs were at loose ends, needing to be mended or unit ed again, but could not be made what they were before. They had jto be set right by applying some uniform principle of justice or en- lightened expediency. Set Up New States And they could not be adjusted by merely prescribing in a treaty what should be one. New states were to be set up whieh could not hope to live thru their first period of weakness without assured sup port by the great nations that had consented to their creation and won for them independence. — Illgov- erned colonies could not be put in the hands of governments which were to act as trustees for their people and not as their masters if there was to be no common author: ity among the nations to which! they were to be responsible in the execution of their trust, Future in ternational conventions with regard to the control of waterways, with regard to illicit traffic of on kinds, in arms or in deadly drwy, or with regard to the adjustment, of many varying international adminis. | thesis If there was to be no common and regulate | and railways which | life of more than one nation, and tox of law or of privilege; and the very | and went out of its way to perform. | y} what kind of a ship do you eonsider and common counsel among the gov- grnments to which the world was looking to enforce justice and give | nledges of an enduring settlement, | regions like the Saar basin could not ; be put under a temporary adminis: trative regime which did not involve a transfer of political sovereignty |and contemplated a final determina- tion of its political connections by popular voté to be taken at a distant date; no free city like Danzig could be created which was under elab- orate international guarantees, to accept exceptional obligations with regard to the use of its port and exceptional relations with a state of which it was not to form a part; properly safeguarded _plebescites could not be provided for where pop ulations were, at some future date, to make cholce what sovereignty they would like to be under; no cer tain’ and uniform form of arbitra tion could be secured for the settle ment of anticipated difficulties of final decision with regard to many matters dealt with in the treaty it self; the long continued supervision of the task of reparation which Ger. many was to undertake to complete within the next generation, might entirely break down; the reconsidera- Uon and revision of administrative arrangements and restrictions which the treaty prescribed, but which it Was recognized might not prove of lasting advantage, or entirely fair, if too long enforced, with debate im practicable, eed Common Tribunal The promises governments were making to one another about the way in which labor was to be dealt with, by law not only, but im fact as well, would remain a mere human tribunal of opinion and judgment to which liberal statesmen could resort for the influence which alone might secure their redemption. A league of free nations had become a prac. tical necessity, Examine the treaty of peace and you will find that everywhere thruout its manifold pro- visions its framers have felt obliged to turn to the league of nations as an indispensable instrumentality for the maintenance of the new order it has been their purpose to set up in the world—the world of civilized men, That there should be a league of nations to steady the counsels and | maintain the peaceful understand. | ings of the world, to make, not trea- | ties alone, but the accepted princi- ples of international law as well, the actual rule of conduct among the | governments of the world had been one of the agreements accepted from the first as the basis of ‘peace with the central powers. 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