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Show WIL SON SATISFIED WITH PEACE RESULT PRESIDENT RETURNING HOME BELIEVING CONFERENCE WAS A WONDERFUL SUCCESS. Liberates Peoples Who Had Never Before Had a Chance of Liberty, and Bands Together People of World to Make Peace Lasting runs President Woodrow Wilson toes back to the United States more than satisfied, his friends say, with the net results of the conference, and, nil things considered, it is his opinion Ihut the conference has been a wonderful won-derful success. While it is regarded us a disadvantageous peace for Germany, Ger-many, yet against this it is held that Germany committed a great wrong and quite naturally and inevitably must make just reparations for that wrong. v But outside of German results, the conference is viewed in presidential quarters as liberating peoples who never before had a chance of liberty, such as Poland, Jugoslavia, nud Czechoslovakia. Also, the conference is credited with banding together the people of the world to make the peace regime enduring. Other large results, it was pointed out, are the giving of a charter to labor, removing restrictions on international intercourse and many other interatioal results which can be summed up as "a colossal business, such as tlie world never dreamed of before." The peace treaty and the league of nations covenant should be ratified without amendment, according to the presidential view as it is understood, for -certain definite reasons, namely, that if -any one power seeks to make amendments then the war will not be over until every one of the 21 associated asso-ciated nations learns the results of the amendments. This can only be done through the processes of negotiation find it is held that the effect of the amendments would be to keep t lie United States out of the treaty and out of the league. The question has arisen whether reservations res-ervations amount to amendment, and presidential quarters are understood to liold that reservations, such as the proposed pro-posed Root reservation to article ten of the covenant, are equivalent to amendment. |