A CHALLENGE MET

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 89, 12 October 1920, Page 7

A CHALLENGE MET

REPUBLICAN CHARGE FEFUTED.

(Received October 12, 10.30 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, 11th October

The White House has 'published a stenographic transcript of President Wilson's remarks before the eighth plenary session of the.Peace Conference (recently demanded by .Republican Senators). The transcript, which is by the only shorthand reporter, supports the President's denial of Senator Spencer's charge that President Wilson promised American military aid to Serbia and Rumania if these countries were attacked. The disputed paragraph reads: "How can a Power like the United States, after signing the Treaty, if it contains elements which they do not bslieve will be permanent, go 3000 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. Y«t there underlies all these transactions an expectation on the part, for example, of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Serbia, "that if any of the Covenants of this settlement are unobserved, the United. States will send her armies and navies to see that they are observed,"

[Senator Spencer a. few days, ago alleged that a shorthand report of the eighth plenary session of the Supreme .Council shows thai President Wilson promised Serbia and Roumania American assistance if they should be attacked in. future. Senator Reed made a statement pointing, out that the truth of the stenographic report is unquestioned, and challenging President Wilson to produce a copy of the minutes of the meeting ]