Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-30 | Page 12 | Secrets of Versailles Council Will be Bared

Secrets of Versailles Council Will Be Bared a red redBy By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen Authors of Washington Round Merry-Go-Round a Daily Telegram Feature WASHINGTON Dec Dee 30 After 30 After almost 20 years of suppression the he minutes of the famous Council of Four which divided the spoils of the World wa war at Versailles are to be made public This was the council consisting of f Woodrow Wilson Lloyd George Clemenceau and Orlando the Big four who really wrote the Versailles Versailles Ver- Ver sailles ailles treaty and eastern Europe into Czechoslovakia Poland Poland Po- Po land and and the Free City of f Danzig For some some time the state department has been endeavoring to o make public the minutes of the conversations of these thes four elderly gentlemen This This' is in conformity with the regular policy of publishing all aU diplomatic diplomatic dip- dip correspondence after a lapse apse of 15 years but France has opposed Just last year Ambassador dor or Bullitt renewed representations to o the French foreign office on onus this us point without success One of the important documents which the minutes contained and which the state department wanted to publish was the position of Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Lansing secretary of state in opposing the tle award Yard of the area to the newly newly created created Czecho Czecho- slovakia He reported to the council council council coun coun- cil of four that inclusion of the German Gennan populations in the new newstate newstate newstate state was contrary to the Wilson policy of self self- self determination of peoples peoples peoples peo peo- ples and an ethnological incon incon- This however was overruled overruled overruled over over- ruled by Jules Cambon at that time acting for Clemenceau on the commission He declared that Czechoslovakia was a weak state because o of its elongated shape and might be cut in two by invasion if not provided with the defense of af the mountains This week the state department has received a cable from the French government fi finally 1 ll giving permission to publish the complete minutes of the council of four Copyright 1938 for The Telegram