Show I I ANSING ADMITS AD M lIS PACT PACI IS E c. c F FAULTY AUL IY S Secretary of State Declares r P Treaties rea es But Starting Point t of Reconstruction f for r World Still Menaced l t PARIs RIS l July 12 Before 12 Before leaving I t for the United States tonight Secretary Lansing made mado the follow follow- ig statement to the American corre- corre P Many lEany thoughts rush to mind on wing sing tho peace conference after i l. months of effort Never b before fore forel I 4 as l such an international gathering cn n held for here has been the meet- meet g grounds of twenty-seven twenty nations liquidate a world war and estaba gli tl a new order and a laboratory There T already a system of world co- co has bas been born out of ne- ne fL sity u ne-j ne Out of ot It all aU has come the most im- im International document ever rawn the wn-the the treaty of or peace with Geri Ger- Ger tiny which meets i lany n a document not on only Issues of ot the present war but also lys LS down now new agreements of ot tho the most and most hopeful character V 4 f of ot Trent Treaty I The The nations are bound boun together to crt ert another world catastrophe back back- Er rd peoples are given shen a a. new no hope for tor forIer I I Ier future several racial entitles are berated rated to form new states states states-a a be- be Ih tubing Is made toward removing remo un un- I tat pt t economic restrictions and the theat eat at military autocracies of central I rope are destroyed as the first step stop ia l i general disarmament I Tha treaties of ot course are not all at wo we had hoped for tor It could hardi hard hard- i be expected to be bc Too many con- con Interests Were Involved In as well Hoo too many legitimate documents would tax the most moat perfectly l lanced mind early Nearly f every one ono will find In It both of ot omission and com com- aslon provisions Inserted which better have havo been loft left out outs and visions left out which might better bolter e c e been Inserted Such a document must however howe be mined both against the background fits it creation and In tho the large sweep Its spirit From that point of ot view may call It 11 a stepping stone stono from old International methods to tho the wIt w. w I It if It still holds some somo of the tho dis- dis and hatreds of tho the war which r. r nany has full well wen earned for herf hert her- her f t If it f Its construction has has' been bin bin- fed ed d by m memories of ot secret pacts and It must be bo borne In mind th that s with It the evident purpose throw off the old methods of Inter Inter- tonal lOnal Intrigue and plotting l Hut But Starting Point But t the present treaties are arc hut but tho the rUng point of ot world reconstruction w that the general principles have haven havea n a laid down It remains to execute fl And b by that I mean not HO so much buthe action against nations ch have recent recently run amuck In the Id but rather the cleansing and andling andling ling precedes that shall Ahall really e good our hopes and aspirations there Is a n great rea t. t danin dan- dan ln tn tho world tOda today Many Inny people e thought that the tho mere mero 81 signing of ot with marks tho the lg g of ot the world peril perl Public ems to have o breathed a sigh of ot and lapsed back bacle Into apathy of thoU thought ht on world worl lems Is weakening ng- ng now when It In lit t essential and the forces of or Uon and reaction have been given gien of t t. action far greater greuter than thann thana n a the world was on ou Il Us Its guard 1 Situation tc o situation today Is West West- Is still dazed by the l' l k of four and anel a n half halt years ears of ot de de- Industry and commerce are vet ot restored All An of at Europe Is im- im riBbed cd parts of ot It are starving Its e political nl fiber has hils been shot ugh tigh and ami are arc gripped b by political doctrines Austria Austria- gary gan and Turkey as empires havo ed to be be Poland and Czecho Slova are ro struggling to their feet teet as hors bers of the family of at nations H 1 that complicated machinery of ot ky y which took decades to on page 2 2 4 LANSING ADMITS PACT IS FAULTY I Continued d from pago 1 I ate nto and a world war to tear down cannot can cannot not be replaced overnight o by a wholly holly different machinery r Many anY problems remain unsettled Territorial n adjustments to secure the rights of ot peoples to live c under their I Iown own fla flag as far tar as possible In the tangled tangled tangled tan tan- skein of It European nationalities may be made effective c Attainment of oe tho the Polish frontiers on all sides particularly In East Prussia Prussia sia sin Is very ory difficult The Tho coal coalfields coalfields fields s arc are still a source of or contention hi nen n P nd J C CzeChO Slovakia II ir- ir iri Hungary i I Is iter Interrupting s- s the tho le trade of at all nIl central Europe Europ The Adriatic problem Is still unsolved tin tin- un un- solved sol as well as the fate fato of tho those 1 o lar largo large o territories formerly under the Turk including especially Asia Minor and Armenia Anxious for lor World statesmanship will be sorely trl tried d In the text fow to- ow years Two T things JI nr are es essential first essential first t an alert Intelligent ent Interested public opinion and second econ operation co of tho the nations Tho The former for for- ormer or- or mf mer r Is needed both as a a. check on nn any sinister purposes ps that ma may crop up and as u th the threat great reat support for common action The Tho second I Is essential unless the nations are Ire to return to a selfish which can only breed the most dangerous disputes The conference has nos been history's his nis- torys tory's greatest Jn instance tance of or a unified world statesmanship directing the moral and material resources of the worlds world's family of or To allow tho spirit behind It to disintegrate at this moment of ot emergency when united action ac- ac action ac nc- tion Is Imperative would bo ho fatal to all alii the hopes of permanent t peace with which we wo entered the war ar arIf If It t is true that one nation can de destroy destroy destroy de- de stroy the equilibrium of oe all it is all In Inthe the more mol true true true- rue that each elch nation Is bound b by Its own law of self lf preservation tion to operate co-operate with the others to check troubles before they get their headway So I lea leave e for Cor home tonight pleased but not over complacent with the outcome outcome outcome out out- come of ot the tho past elx six months and hope- hope bul bul but not in the least unmindful of or J the problems of ot the next few e- e years |