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Show H ijANsi.nm o.v Wilson. . i-'kw ok tiu: HIGH H I'KOM HIS HOOK ON PEACE .MAKING H Jt fiber l Lansing, former Hoctotary of state anil H member of the American ponce commission, reveals, H In Ills book on "Tim IV.ttv Negotiations" published m by he Houghton MIlIlu comp.ni Murch 22. how clone H lie court to resigning from the conimlssloiPbocausu H dlffcteuces with President Wilson over tlin Shantung H ; decision tmd his belief that m,my of the terras of B ! 1 pOnco I'mposed on Geimany wcie haiuli, humiliating H '-nnd seemingly Impossible. Some of the high spots of H Mr, Lansing's book mo shown In the following tox- H tiial extracts: Hj I cannot feel that any open opposition (o his at- B tending the conference wan considered by the Prcsl- H dent to he unwarranted meddling with his personal B affairs and was none of my business. M H '" He (Mr. Wilson, said with great candor and cm- H ! y fphasls that he did not Intend to have lawyers drafting H the treaty or peace. The President's sweeping din- H approval of members of the legal profession paitlcl- H Dating in )hc treaty making Rccuiod to bo ,nnd T bc- H! llevc was, Intended to be notice to me that my conn- ol was u&Tvelcotne. M 44 Hf One may Infer that, the President was disponed Hj to employ the general longing for p?jco at A meant H' Of exerting pressure on the delegates in Paris nnd on Bti ..their governments to accept his plan for a l.vintie. m i The President haxiug )n the report (on the Hj ' league of nations) declared the American policy, his i rnminlssloned tepresentatlvei weio bound to ncqulcyco H i m. i In his decision, whatever tthelr personal views were. Acqulecenco or resignation was tho choice, 4 1 think that It is not unjust to say that President Presi-dent Wilson was stronger In hla hatreds than In his friendships. He seemed, to lack tho ability to foi-glvo foi-glvo one who had In any way offended him or opposed op-posed him. 4 After1 an houi's conversation Viscount Chlnda made It very clear that Jnpan Intended to Insist 011 her "pound of flesh." 4 4 4 Tho time given to the formulation of tho covenant cov-enant of the league of nations and tho determination that It should have first ploco In tho tic-solUtionc caused such n delay on tho proceedings nnd prevented a speedy restoration or peace. Denial of this is useless. use-less. It is too manifest to require proof o nru-mcut nru-mcut to support it. 4444 It Is fair to asfiumo that he had no piogram p.v pared and v,as unwilling to have any one olho make n tcntutlve one ror his consideration. It lort the American Am-erican commission without -a chart maiklng out the couttso which they were to put sua In tho negotiations and apparently without a pilot who knew tho channel 4 4 He was not disposed to discuss nfittlois with the American commission as a wholo or oven to announce to them hla decisions unless something arose which compelled him to do so. Ho easily fell into the piau-tlco piau-tlco of booing men separately and of keeping sec-t-t the knowledgo acquired, as well as tho erfect of t'jlt knowledge on his Uews and purposes. 4444 But for secrecy I firmly believe that (here woulJ have been no "Flume affair." 4 If to the Increasing secrctUoness of the pioceet-ings pioceet-ings of the controlling bodies of the peace conference aio added the Intrigues and personal bargainings which were constantly going on, the "log rolling" t to use. term familiar to American politics which was practiced, the record is one which Inyltcs no praise aDd will find many who condemn It. Secrecy and Intrigue which wero only possible through secrecy stained nearly all tho negotiations at Paris, but In tho final act of withholding knowl. edge of tho actual text, of the treaty fiom the delegates dele-gates of most of the nations represented In the conference con-ference the spirit of secret Ivcnets seem to have gone mad. |