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1851-1921 By Elmer Davis Originally published 1921 |
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steadily supported the general policies of President Wilson, though it could not agree with him on some details. Its editors felt that it was a mistake for shim to go to Paris in person, but later they came to the conclusion that the President had been right, and that by his presence at the conference he had obtained some results which would have been impossible for any negotiator of less eminence. They thought, and still think, that he made a mistake in not taking with him representative leaders of the Republican party, as well as in showing too plainly an opinion reasonable enough in itself of the endowments and the character of some eminent Senators. On some of the territorial, political or economic items of the peace settlements, too, The Times could not accept the President's views.
But its conductors thought that these objections were all of minor importance (and irrelevant to the principal issues. With the President's opinion that the League was all-important they were in entire accord, as well as with his position on most of the
territorial and economic questions in dispute. They
thought the Treaty of Versailles was not ideally perfect, but about the best treaty that could have been
obtained. And they held the opinion, none too common in the United States in 1919, that after all the
President was the representative of the entire American people at the peace conference, that it was im
possible for him to get his way on every point of
difference with the other delegates, and that an enlightened view of national interest, to say nothing
of those more general considerations of universal
welfare which his opponents so vehemently disclaimed,
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