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Show I THE LEAGUE OK NATIONS 1 The attitude of Secretary of State j Ijtn.siug, on the League of Nations as expressed by him on May 1I, HMD, While He Was Still in France Fran-ce as a Member of the Peace Conference. Con-ference. Mr. Bull.'tt. who makes the following fol-lowing statement, was a witness before be-fore the Senate committee on foreign for-eign relations. He ivss in the department de-partment of state and went to France Fran-ce with Secertary Lansing and President Pres-ident Wilson, on the George Washington, Wash-ington, and his special work was to follow the political situation of Germany and prepare confidential reports weekly, and at other times for the use of the president and secretary, sec-retary, also he had rh- rge of the confidential bulletin which was gotten got-ten out for the benefit of the American Amer-ican commissioners each morning. He was in constant touch at all times with the doings of the commission com-mission and every morning he made a report to our commissioners. Consequently Con-sequently he was in a position to know what was said and done. In his testimony before the commktee, he said: "I dictated the following notes ira mediately after my conversation." "Mr. Lansing said, among other things, that he was absolutely opposed op-posed to the United States taking a mandate in either Armenia or Constantinople; Con-stantinople; that he considered many parts of the treaty thoroughly had. particularly those dealing wi'th Shan tung and the League of Nations. He said: 'I consider that the League of Nations, at present is entirely useless. use-less. The great powers have simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves. England and France in particular, have gotten out of the treaty everything that they wanted, and the Leaoa.e of Mo. Hons can do nothing except by unanimous un-animous consent of the members of the league, and the great powers will never give their consent to changes in the interests of the weaker weak-er peoples.' "We then talked about the posl-bility posl-bility of ratification by the Senate. Mr. Lansing said: 'I believe that if the Senate could only understand what this treaty means, and if the American people could really understand , it would unquestionably be defeated, but I wo-der of they will ever understand what it l.-t ; them in for.' "He expressed the opinion that Mr. Knox would probably really understand the treaty, and that Lodge would but Mr. Lodge's position po-sition would be purely political and therefore ineffective. "He thought, hovever that Knox might instruct America on the real meaning of it." |