U.S. AND PEACE CONFERENCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20076, 12 October 1920, Page 7

U.S. AND PEACE CONFERENCE.

CHARGE AGAINST THE PRESiDENT, i- , THE OFFICIAL REPORT. Jly Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, Australia and N.Z. ’ Cable Association, (Received October 12, ID a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 11. White House officials publish the stenographic transcript ol President Wilson's remarks before the eighth plenary session of tho Peaco Conference. Tho transcript, which is by his own shorthand reporter, supports the> President's denial of Senator Spencer’s charge that President "Wilson promised American military aid to Serbia and Rumania if those countries should bo attacked, which is controverted in a paragraph wiiicli roads: “ How can a Power like the United States, after signing tho tieaty, it it contains elements which they do not believe will bo permanent; go three thousand miles away across the. sea and report to its people that it has made a settlement of the peaco of the world? It cannot do so. Yet thcro underlies all those transactions an expectation on the part, for example, of Rumania., Gzecho-Slorakia and Serbia that if any of the covenants of this settlement are not observed tho United States will send her armies and navies lo £CO that they are observed.”