RETURN OF THE GERMAN DELEGATES.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15087, 2 June 1919, Page 5

RETURN OF THE GERMAN DELEGATES.

PRESIDENT WILSOjN ON OPEN

DIPLOMACY.

SPEECH BY MR LLO^D GEORGE,

THE CONFERENCE'S DETERMIN-

ATION,

(Australian and N.Z, Cable Association)

Paris, May 19. llantzau and ihe entire delegation have returned. •.'■'"■■

President Wilson, in a Memorial Day speech, said there had been soc-ret councils of nations in the past ;• but because the people were now in the saddle, private meetings of statesmen would no longer determine the nation's destinies. • .._.,...

Mi- Lloyd George, recently addressing a'Welsh division at Amiens, said the Germans had been reckoning on this war for years, even counting the spikes per yard of barbed wire. We were bound, in order to prevent a recurrence^of it, to make the terms severe. We must carry out the edict of Providence, jmd see' that the people inflicting these horrors would never be in. a position to do so again. "The Germans, their newspapers, and politicians say tW will not sio-n. We «ay, 'Yon must. If not at Versailles you will sign in Berlin.' The world's "-u----ture depends on this peace being imposed. If necessary, yon soldiers will march to Berlin, though your leave be cancelled and your return delayed "