| Show I 1 j f u. u a S. S a IS VICTIM Of I I OBSESSION SAYS JOHNSON I California Senator Decries Transactions at Versailles Peace Table By Associated Press LOS ANGELES GELES Oct 4 The The text of the address by Senator Hiram Johnson John John- Johnson ohn son of California at Shrine auditorium last night follows in part Long before we knew lene of the league of nations before we w knew lenew what the league of nations was certain gentlemen genUe- genUe I I m men n were going up and down the down the land and into the various communities and different cities chanting chanting- promote and peace prevent war And all of us joined in the chorus until it became a sort of national emblem emblem emblem em em- blem promote peace and prevent war And when the president went abroad you looked as I did with straining eyes and with hope and longing and you looked hoping and praying that out of Europe's great conflict In which we had become involved that out of this peace conference sitting in Paris might come something that would render render render ren ren- der ever impossible conflicts between men such as s we have ha witnessed In thelast thelast the tho last few years SAW PRINCIPLES SCRAPPED We Va watched his course coure across the water and we saw one by one every idealistic principle he announced scrapped over o there there scrapped scrapped not even en fought for over there then We Ve saw I every principle we wo had asserted for peace forgotten abandoned dered He talked open covenants openly arrived at And we saw that abandoned without a a a. struggle He told I us there was w-as to be freedom of the seas and there was one r arrom the British Brit Brit- ish lion and the freedom of ot the seas was forever forgotten fors He talked of guarantees in the reduction of arma arma- ments There was no guarantees and subsequently the principle was never mentioned at all Impartial adjustments of colonial claims was one of his principal ideas And colonial claims were adjusted in accordance with the bargains barg-ans that were made prior to our entry into the war He spoke of the destruction of ot ever every y arbitrary power and no arbitrary power powel r was destroyed except that of ot th the tho o enemy country NO NO SPECIAL ALLIANCES Self-determination Self echoed and nd re reechoed reechoed reechoed re- re echoed al ajl over the world orId Self deter S was forgotten with the first firs t clash he had with European diplomacy No o special alliance could come out but o of ot f that peace j I Special alliances were the prolific sources of ot war he said and any peace I that would be written wherein there would be special alliances of the members members members mem mem- bers constituting that peace would be bean bean bean an insecure and insincere peace and yet we had brought back to us a special special special cial alliance with France Justice for the weak and when the strong name named the real price they wanted out of at the war the weak were forgotten as in the Shantung decision INQUEST OVER DEAD HOPE No o peoples were to be handed out from sovereignty to sovereignty and andI t yet they were handed out exactly as as if I they were property No o territory was to change hands except for tor the happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness of its peoples and territory hands in the secret conference I and under secret a agreements before we were over parties to the contract One I by one the idealisms that was his and ours that was American after all was scrapped in Europe and the flabbiness of his good Intentions surrendered to the ol old sinister European and Asiatic diplomacy and the American people held a sad and intellectual inquest over overa a dead hope |
