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Show WILSON i CONING I HOME I President Will Depart1 I From Paris as Soon as j I Treaty Is Signed. PARIS, .Tune 27. (By The Associ-j ated Press i The sojourn of President Presi-dent WiKon in Europe will come lo an ; end tomorrow, when be starts homeward home-ward immediately following the signing sign-ing of the peace treaty. All arrangements arrange-ments for his departure have been completed and the special presidential train will leave the (arc the Des Inva-lidc Inva-lidc at 9.30 Saturday evening. It will arrive at Bresl Snndaj morning, ! where the president will board the , steamship George Washington, which ' will sail about noon. On his arrival In the United States, President Wilson will go straight to i Washington to lay before congress the results of the peace conference He will leave soon afterward tor an extended ex-tended lour of the country for the pur-pope pur-pope of explaining directly to the peo-pie peo-pie all questions relating to .the peace treaty and the league of nations cov-, enant. ' The president goes back to the Uni-ted Uni-ted States more than satisfied, his; friends say, with the net results of the eonference. and. all things considered,; it is his opinion that the conference has been a wonderful success. While; I it is regarded as a disadvantageous , ' peace for Germany, yet against this it is held that Germany committed a I great wrong and quite naturally and ! inevitably must make just reparation I for that wrong. But outside of German results, the conference is viewed in presidential quarters as liberating peoples who! I never before had a chance of liberty,! such as Poland, Jugoslavia and Cze- i , cho-Slovakia. Also, the conference is credited with banding together the, people of the world to make the peace I regime enduring. Other large results. I it was pointed out are the ghing of, !J a charter to labor, removing restnc- 1 I 'lions on international intercourse and ' many other international results which I can "be summed up as "a colossal bus- H i iness, such as the world never dream - H ed of before." The peace treaty and the leacrue of j i nations covenant should be ratified I without amendment, according to the presidential view as it is understood, for certain definite reasons, namely, j that if any one power seeks to make amendments, then the war will not be oyer until every one of the twenty-I twenty-I one associated nations learns the re sults of the amendments. This can ; only be done through processes of ne gotiation and it is held that i. would i he a hopeless process of delay in re storing peace. It is also held that the effect of the amendments would be to keep the United States out of the treaty trea-ty and out of the league. The question has arisen whether reservations amount to amendment, and presidential quarters are under-I under-I stood to hold that reservations such as the proposed Root reservation to article ten of the covenant, are equiva lent to an amendment 1 Feeling is said to be particularly strong in presidential quarters against the resolution of Senator Fall of New Mexico to declare a state of peace with Germany, which is characterized in these responsible quarters as having hav-ing the effect of allying the United States with Germany and placing the country in a position of contempt that no nation ever suffered It is the president's pres-ident's belief, according to reliable sources, that not more .nan a handful of people in America will approve such a, resolution. The length of the peace conference-is conference-is regarded, it is said, as beneficial on the whole, as the long discussion brought about a fuller understanding among the nations. There is special pride in the fact that the views of the American experts usually prevailed, probably because the United States had no selfish interests involved in the difficult questions settled. It is also held that sinister influences played play-ed comparatively little or no part in the results of the conference. Concerning the mandate of the United Uni-ted States in Turkey, the president is known to hold that he had no ricbl to make any promises and that the most he could do was to present the subject to the people at home. One of the main reasons for the proposed American mandate in Con - i stantinople. it is pointed out, is that II would keep Constantinople out of European politics and keep the Black sea open for the world's commerce. Concerning Mexico and Costa Rica not being in the league of nations, the presidential view Is said to be that the situation is of their own making i and that it is necessary' for thoso governments gov-ernments to ' find themselves." Rela-nve Rela-nve to the president's fourteen points, the view is gaining that th? treaty adheres ad-heres to the points more closelv than had been expected, owing to the difficulties dif-ficulties and complications which arose during the course of the negotiations. On the whole, presidential quarters! recard the signing of the treaty as the end of a long Job the are glad to see finished, and President Wilson, it was stated, starts back relying with, confidence on approval of the work by the people when misapprehensions have been made fully aware what the j conference has accomplished. Besides signing the treaty and the' protocol tomorrow, the president has made it known that he is ready to sign the treaty carrying out the arrange- ments whereby the United States and Great Britain will come to the assistance assis-tance of France in case she is men - J aced by Germany if the treaty can be i prepared tor signature before his de-! parture; otherwise ho will authorize! secretary of State Lansing to sign that! treaty after his departure The triple undertaking has already, been communicated in the form of a letter which will be sent to the American Amer-ican senate but the treaty is the formal for-mal carrying out of the engagement. Tho American newspaper correspondents corres-pondents were received by President ffeon at the hotel De Crillon this afternoon and the president bade them each farewell. ru |