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ihiA A cry had gone out from
SSrM5omAe hf every" stricken land
rrnm which sons and -brothers and
ShiriT had gone forth to the great
a nco that such a sacrifice Should
nover Saln b0 exacted' Jt wa ,ma?I
?fVst why it had been . exacted. It
hftfl been exacted because- one nation
desired dominion and other nations
id known no means of defence ex
it armaments and alliance. We
r.1:, inn at. the heart of every ar
rangement of the Europe of every
arrangement of the World that pre
ceded the war. Restive peoples had
been told that fleets and armies,
which they toiled to sustain, meant
peace; and the; now know that they
had been lied to; that fleets and
armies had been maintained to pro
mote national ambitions and meant
war They know that no old policy
meant anything else but force, force
oimvn force. And they knew that
it was intolerable. Every true heart
in the world and every enlightened
judgment demanded that, at what
ever cost of independent action every
government that took thought for
its people or for justice or for
ordered freedom should lend itself
to a new purpose and utterly des
troy the old order of international
politics. Statesmen might see diffi
culties, but te people could see none
and could brook no denial. A war
in which they had been bled white
to be it the terror that lay concealed
in every balance of power must not
end in a mere victory of arni3 and
a new balance. The monster that had
resorted to arms must be put in
chains that could not be broken.
DO WE REGRET IT?
The united power of freo nations
must put a stop to aggression, and
the world must be given peace. If
there was not the will or the intelli
Lnoo to accomsishthatnows there
must be another and a final war and
the world must be swept clean of
every power that could renew the
terror. The League of Nations was
not merely an instrument to adjust
and remedy old wrongs under a new
rule of peace. It was the only nope
for mankind again and again had the
demon of war boen cast out of the
house of the peoples and the house
swept clean by a treaty of peace; only
to prepare a time when ho would
enter it again With spirits worse than
himself. The house must now be
given a tenant who could hold it
against all such. Convenient, indeed
indispensable as statesmen found the
newly planned League of Nations, to
be for the execution of present plans
of peace and reparations, they saw it
in a new aspect before their work was
finished. They saw it as the main
0b1fP.t. nf tltn nnnnn no fhn rtnlir fhlnfr
that could complete it or make it
worth while. They saw it as the
hope of the world and that hope they
did not dare to disappoint. Shall we
or any other free people hesitate to
accept this great duty? Dare we re
ject it and break the heart of the
world.
CONFERENCE STANDS COMPLETE
And so the ie3ult of the conference
of peace, so far as Germany is con
cerned, stands complete. The diffi
culties encountered were very many.
Sometimes they seemed insuperable.
It was impossible to accommodate
the interests of so great a body of
nations interests which directly or
indirectly affected almost every na
tion in the world without many
minor compromises. The treaty as a
result, is not exactly what we would
nave written. It is probably not
what any one of the national delega
tions would have written. But re
sults were worked out which on the
whole bear test. I think that it will
e found that the compromises which
were accepted as inevitable nowhere
cut to the hoart of any principle
The work of the conference squares,
as a whole, with the principles
agreed unon as thn imafa nt im
as well as with the practical possibi-
iiLiun ui liii minriinnnnni oiimf(,.
which had to be faced and dealt with
as facts.
AMERICA'S ROLE
I Shall nrnRn.ntlv linvn nnnnelnn
lay before you a special treaty with
x'lumso,- wnose ooject is the tem
porary protection of Franco from
unprovoked aggression by the power
with whom this treaty of peace has
been negotiated. Its terms link it
with this treaty. I take the liberty,
however, of reserving it for special
explicitation on another occasion.
The role which America was to
play In the conference, saomod do-
ivtiijuiuu, a i novo sam, notara my
colloagucs and I got to Paris de
termined by the universal expecta
tions of tho nations whoio repre
sentative, drawn from all quarters
Ul " giouu, wo wore to ioi with.
It was universally recognised that
-tumjiicn nun nnmrmi tiwi wni n
promote no private or peculiar inter
est of her own, but only as the
champion of rights which sho was
glad to sharo with free men and
lovers of justico everywhere. We
had formulated tho principles upon
Which tllfl KrWtln.mnnf wn in Un mndn
tho principles upon which the ar
mistice had boon agreed to and tho
parloys of peace undertaken and
no ono doubted that our desire was
to see tho treaty of peace formulated
along tho actual lines of those prin
clplo and dosirod nothing olio. v"
wore welcomed as ilislntarestaa
friends. Wo woro reported to a ar
biters in many a dlflloult matter. It
was recognized that our material aid
would 1m indispensable in tho days
to come, when industry and credit
would have to bo brought hack to
their normal operation again and
cdtnmunitiuH beaten to the ground
assisted to their foot once more and
it was taken for grantod. I am proud
to say, that we would play tho hclp-
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othors without prejudice or favor.
We were goncrously acreplod as tho
unaffoctod champions of what was
right. It was a very responsible role
to play; but I am happy to report
that tho line group of Americana
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