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MR. LANSING'S REMARKABLE NARRATIVE

HISTORY OF THE PEACE TREATY NEGOTIATIONS.

TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1921.

"This further departure from America's historic policy caused ime to accept President Wilson's "guidance and direction... with Increasing reluctance. We did not agree, we could not agree.""

The auther says he did not re- sign his commission at that time, because he felt it "would create. MrRobert Lansing's long-await-sident were those to which he an embarrassing situation in the ed hook, "The Peace Negotia-listened when he sat in secret negotiations" of the Peace Treaty. tions," published by the Houghton council with M. Clemenceau and

ACCUSES BIG FOUR" OF, Mifflin Co. of Boston and New Mr. Lloyd George,”

SEORET DIPLOMACY." York, ntains a startling story The first breach between Mr. of what happened behind the Lansing and President Wilson tised, Mr. Lansing says, by Of secret diplomacy, as prac- scenes at the Peace Conference, after they arrived in Paris, was President Wilson, M. Clemen- which Mr. Lansing, then Secrtary upon the question of guarantee ceau, Mr. Lloyd George, and of State, attended as one of the of territorial rights. Mr. Wilson five American. peace com-wanted an executive guarantee,

Signor Orlando, the author missioners.

with an armed force at its back.. says: Mr. Lansing begins by telling Mr. Lansing held out for anveloping bitterness and resent- Everywhere there are de- why the President asked for his international court, and voluntary ment resignation as Secretary of State compliance to the court's rulings which is interpreted to mean against a secretiveness on Feb. 11. 1920. It was hecause During the early stages of the failure. The patience of the Lansing did not agree with the League-framing Mr. President on the following points; refused the court programme, Their tempor has grown ragged. (1) The President's "presence and, according to Mr. Lausing. They are sick of whispering in Paris during the peace nego- Jaccepted that only at the urgent diplomats." tiations."

solication of foreign delegates. (2) "Tho fundamental princip- Mr. Lansing opposed the "Big of self-determination "

Of President Wilson's principle les of the constitution and fune-Five" perpetual control idea. He Lansing says:

Mr. tions of the League of Nations jeaid it savoured too much of the as proposed and advocator

by small nations. Mr. Wilson paid with dynamite. What effect will "The phrase is simply loaded him.'

no attention to his arguments it have on the Irish, the Indians, (3) The inclusion of the Coven against the "Big Five," belioving the Egyptians, and the nation- ant in the Treaty restoring a that to be the only way in which alists among the Boera? It will state of peace.

he could assure support of Britain, raise hopes which can never bej France, Japan, and Italy to a realized. League of Nations.

(4) The Treaty of defensive

alliance with France.".

(5) The tecessity for a definite programme which the American commissioners could follow.”

(6), "The employment of pri- vate interviews and confidential agreements."

(7). Lastly, the admission of the Japanese claims in the Pro- vince of Shangtung."

want

The book shows that the Pre- sident and his Secretary of State were far apart long before the peace commissioners abroad. Mr. Lansing ways that of the Presidents four peace col- leagues, Colonel House alone knew his

peace programme, other than as he had publicly announced it in his familiar fourteen points and subsequent addresses."

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WHY THE PRESIDENT OPPOSED LANSING.

"Previous to the departure of the American commission to | Paris," Lansing writes, tho president did not consult me as to his plan for a League of Nations. I think there were two reasons

Į for his not doing so, although I was the official advisor whom he should naturally consult on such inatters." These two reasons, Mr. Lansing says, were: THAT he (Mr. Lansing) was opposed to the employment of international force: and THAT Lansing was a lawyer.

Mr. Wilson, the auth r says. has taken no trouble to conceal hat he does not value the advice of lawyers except on strictly legal questions.

of

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was

Wilson people is worn threadbare

MR. ROBERT LANSING,

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"Mr. Wilson

made it one of the bases of peace. And yet, in the negotiations at Paris and in the formulation of the foreign policy of the United States, he has by his acts denied the existence of the right other than as the expression of a moral precept.

"Mr. Wilson even further discredited the phrase by adopt- ing a policy toward Russia which ignored the principle."

The principle of "self-deter- mination" was in the original "mutual guscanty" articlo (ID), Mr. Lansing asserts, and ivas later eliminated when that article became the famous Art. X. The elimination was "chiefly due to the opposition of the states. men who represented the British Empire in contradistinction to those who represented the self- governing British Dominions. } do not know the arguments which were used to induce the President to abandon the phrase."

PERMITTED TO KNOW LITTLE

OF INNER WORKINGS. Mr. Lansing states that he, knew little of the inner workings of the Poace. Conference. Hel says the President made it clear, that he did not wish Mr. Lansing to take a hand in shaping the League of Nations, and intimated that he had bottorturn his attention, to other matiers concerned with the peace negotiations. Other commissioners were in the same PRESIDENT'S SACRIFICE TO HAVE These were

boat, according to Mr. Lansing. Mr. White and COVENANT ADDED TO TREATY. General Bliss. The two American President "sucrificed his idealiam, were

Mr. Lansing insists that the commissionera On the inside his principle of self-determina- Colonel Housa,

President Wilson and

tion, his open diplomacy," and "Even Colonel House's office long delayed the return of peace staff knew more about what was because he insisted that the going on than I did," Mr. League of Nations must be Lansing explains, adding that he written into the peace Treaty." was often was much embarrassed

Mr. Lansing, himself a noted international lawyer, with other legal advisors of the commission,

what they called prepared "skeleton troaty." This done after Mr. Lansing came to believe the President had no de- finite plan for peace bey and the League

Nations. This skeleton treaty" Mr. Lansing Another wide breach between when delegates of other nations, carried to the President, who the President and his Secretary not of the "Big Five," broached rejected it, saying with great of State developed in negotiating peace topics to him, "I did not candor and emphasis that he did a separate treaty with France. know what America's peace pro-i not intend to have lawyers draft. This treaty Mr. Lansing "vigor. gramme was; I did not know ing the treaty of peace."

ously opposed, not because he that the President had one." Being the only lawyer on the objected to assuring France of Mr. Lansing insiste that, to delegation," says Mr. Lansing, "Irotection against possible future make the League of Natione pos- naturally took this remark to German retaliation, but hocause sible, Wilson surrendered to myself."

it was contrary to Mr. Lansing's Japan, on the Shantung demands; idea of American aloofness from to Italy, on the annexation off THE SHANTUNG PROBLEM.

European Batanglements, He the Austrian-peopled province in Mr. Lansing admits

argues with the President that the Alps; to Great Britain in the practically the only hand he had the guarantee contained in the elimination of the self-determin- in the Peace Conference came

Covenant of the League, Art, X, ation principle, and to France on when the Japanese demands on

way sufficient protection for the military protection treaty: Shantung were reached. Here Franer, as it was for smaller and that he deserted the small the President asked him to confer nations around Germany.

nations and helped to make an with both the Japanese and

tha

Chinese delegations. Commis Mr. Lloyd George pledged "oligarchy of the Great Powers."

sioners Bliss and White also France if the United

Britain to such a treaty with. participated..

States They agreed that China should would sign a similar agreement, which proposed to assist France in economic, diplomatic and military ways, if Germay again tacked France without provoca tion.

"M Clemenceau continued to and to reject the League of areas the President to agree to

not be forced to give Shantung to the Japanese, and so reported to the President, who they believed then, was of the same mind.

Later Japan threatened withdraw from the Conferenc

to

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. Nations. Mr. Lansing says that the plan," Mr. Lansing writes.

In-bie eagerness to make the world safe for democracy,'". says Lansing, "he abandoned international democracy became the advocate of in- ternational autocracy,"

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Mr. Wilson was afraid the threat What arguments were employed

MME. PATTI'S HOME SOLD. would be made good, although, ai to persuade him I cannot say;

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