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Show g f g e 0 g a j WILSON DISCLOSES SECRET SESSION SPEECH I --' ' l l I VERSION SHOWS I SEN. SPENCER I IS MISTAKEN I Stenographic Report Shows What President Said At 1 Peace Conference F WILSON MISQUOTED I IN SIMMOND'S ARTICLE White House Makes Text Pub- I lie in View of Controversy About Troops WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. (By the H Associated Bressi. The White House H made public today what was described "official vcsrlon" of President IB Wilsons addreaa at the eighth plenary H session of tin- Paris peace conference. H The exact wording of this address di- H reeled to the representative: of Ron- H I mania, Serbia and Czccho-Slovakia. H has been the subject of a controversy bi veen the president ..nd Senator JH I Spencer, Republican, Missouri. The -senator had declared in, a polit- cal speech that the president had promM-.i Roumanle ana rhia that "if an' nation ever inveeled their ter- jH i ritory he would -sen.) the American i r i n across the seas to defend their li s in CONTR EDICTS. I Mr ilsun hi a . Ivgram to tlo- H October o, sud ihat thin "faiae." In reply Sena- ( ior Spencer called for the official rec-ord, rec-ord, saying that the .statement lo whi.h In- had referred was in the stenographli notes-' of the eigtuh H plenaT) in which the presi- dent was reported to have suld: You must not foiget ihat it Is H thai is tin- final guaranty of the i the If ihe world is jH again troubled the rmied States will Bend t.i i his sid of the ocean their H The words, as given In H the off .eii. I version follow: oil It I l. I Ksiov I Mow power like the United for example and 1 can speak H foi n her after signing this tre-atv H If It contains elements which they do H n.it believe will lie permam nt, go three H thousand tulles across the st H and report to its people that it has LLB made a settlement of peace with the iLLI world? M Cannot do so, and vet there .unde-rlles all i these transactions the expectation on the part, for example, of Kou mania, and of Csecho-Slovakla and of Serbia, that if anj covenants of B Ibis settlement are not observed, the jH United States will ond ht iH navies to see ihat they are observed.'' fH The official version of the full text rl oi the president's address was fin- il nlshed to the White House last week i i v o f C h 1 1 go, i was Official stenographer with the ill Imerli in peace delegation, and who iH wrote thai he wi be glad to iwear JH to the the transcript. STKNOGRAPU1 R KI lQRTS. II i lober 6 and was addressed lo Chas. jH L. Swen, stenographer to the presi- )H lent li.- explained that he had read Senator Spencer's reply to the pie.-u-(b ut in the Chicago newspapers; that had ei his not! - lha he could find no such statement JH as thai attributed fco -Mi. Wilson by the senator,'' lie tadded that it Was barely possible that the quotation was jH from a translation Into English of M-.Munloux M-.Munloux "translation into fcYench t the presidents remarks anfj as you iH know. the ' translations sometimes jH mixed up things a bit. LETTER M Ml i t Bl M "J wish 1 were in a position to make publie what the prciiuent said." wrote Mr. Carlson, "for I feel that the pres- M Idem Is sadly misquoted, b-.t of course H a.-i the meeting was a secret one, 1 can say nothing." Mr. Cai h-.on s letter v as made pnh- H I He by Secretary Tumulty with this H comment. LBH "This letter speaks for Itself " bbbbbbI Senator Spencer, in his replv to l President 'ilaon's. telegram of Ucto- H ! ber 5 said the statement which he bad attributed to the president "was made PJH on the floor of the senate on Febru-ar Febru-ar 1920, by Senator Rceel. and so far as 1 have learned has never been denied until DOW." l rHOR is VI OTKD. H In his speech of February i Sena tor Heed quoted from a copyright d svndlcated article by Frank H. Si-monds. Si-monds. which purported to give the text of the president's address a: the eighth plenar hcssIou and which Sen-atoi Sen-atoi Johnson. lCeiubllcan, California caused to be inserted In the Congrcs-sional Congrcs-sional Record on-December , l'Jl'J. Along with Mr Carlson's trans-eript trans-eript the White House issued in par..i-lei par..i-lei columns for comparison' the vcr-sion vcr-sion of the president's speech as given In Mr. Simonds article as It appears ,n the fongressional Becord 111 I : OTHER VERSION, lu the opposite column from the of- jH flcial version of the president's words i ontlnui d on Page Two.j f t J Version Shows Senator Spencer Was Mistaken ( Continued Prom Page one ) as previously quoted, appears the fol-; lowing: "How could the government of the United States gu before the congress and the people 0f the United States j land pretend that it had assisted In In ! surlng the peace of the world, If it believed be-lieved that the settlement agreed upon here contained unstable or dangerous allgnmnts? If the vvorld should be I troubled uguin. if the conditions which' I We all regard as lundanmntal are challenged, chal-lenged, the guaranties which will be .given you will pledge that the United .St.ites will send Its army and fleet' .. n,s the ocean Is it surprlnlng. un-der un-der such Conditions, that it should de-Islre de-Islre to reach a solution of the various problems which seem to it satisfactory'" satisfac-tory'" TEXT ( II VDDRESS The text of President Wilson's address ad-dress as supplied to the White House g by Mr. Carlson, in part. lOUOWl "Mr President, I would be very sor ry to sec this meeting adjourn wit! pcrmajnent Impressions such as It Ii possible hive been created bv som ol the remarks that our friends have ."We are trying to make a peaceful settlement, that is to say. to eliminate I those elements uf disturbance so far ai I possihl which niaj interfere with the : peace of the Nvorld, and w e are trying to make an equitable distribution of territories , according to the races, the ethnographical haructer of the peo- pie Inhabiting those territories. "And back of that lies the fundamental funda-mental Important fact when the decisions de-cisions are made, the allied and associated asso-ciated power.- guarantee to maintain them And, therefore, w- must not close our eyes to the fact that In the last analysts, 'he military and n:i-val n:i-val strength of the great powers Will I" the final guaranty of the peace of the vvorld RIGHTS OP MINORITIES "Take the rights of minorities. Nothing. No-thing. I venture to say. Is more likely to disturb the peace of the world than the treatment which might in certain eircumstam es lie meted out to minorities min-orities And. therefore, if the great powers are to guarantee the peace of i the world in any sense Is It unjust that theV should be satisfied that tho proper and necessary guarantiee have been gh'en - How ,t ower like the Lulled Rates, for examph for 1 can speak for no other after signing this treaty, if tt contains elements which they do not believe will be permanent go three 'thousand miles away across the sea and report to Its people that It has made a settlement of the peace of the world ' It cannot do so. And yd. j there underlies all of these transactions transac-tions the expectalioin on the part, for example uf Houmunia, and of Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, and of S-erbla, that if qnv covenants of Ibis settlement are not j observed the United States will send I her armies and her navies to see that i they are observe,! I S, v Wi g gUTTLEM I vi S In I hose circumstances, Is It unreasonable un-reasonable that tbe United state" should Insist upon being satisfied thai the settlements are correct' "1 beg my friend, Sir, Krannar. and mj friend, Mr. Trumbic, and my friend Mr Uratlano, to feci that If vvc think that it is best to leai c the words ; which thev have wished to omit In I the treaty not because wc want to In sist upon unreasonable conditions, but thai we want the treaty to accordv'o u.; line right of Judgment as to Wheth-,i Wheth-,i i bust ;ire things 'hich can afford I to guarantee. ' Therefore the impressions with which wc should disperse uiir thought are these, that we arc ail friends of '.course that goes without saying but that we all must be associates in a i ommon clfort DANGEROS IDEA. "New if the agreement is a separate agreement among groups ot us, that does not meet the object. If ou I should adopt the language suggested I by the Czecho-Slovaklan delegates, and the Serbian delegatllon, the Jugo-Slo- I vak delegatloin that It should be (eft I lo negotiation between the principal allied and associated powers and their several delegate, that would mean that after this whole conference is adjourned-groups of them would determine deter-mine what is to be the basis of the peace of 'he world It seeme to me that that would be a most dangerous Idea to entertain,, and therefore. I beg that we part with a sense, not of Interference Inter-ference with each other, but of hearty land friendly cooperation upon the only possible basis of guarantee Where the great force I lei there must be tho sanctkoin of peace. AFRAID OF Mlr MvK "I sometimes wish, in hearing an 'argument lfke this, that I were the representative of a small power so that what I said might be robbed of anv mistaken significance, but I think you will agree with me that the United States has never :.iiow n any temper of aggression anywhere, and It lies In the heart of the people of the United I States, as I am sure It lies in the hearts i of the peopled of the Other great povv-i povv-i crs. to form a common partnership of right and to do service to our aisocl-1 aisocl-1 ates, and no kind of dia-serv Ice." |