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tricks has sent a NOTE to Italy,
His appeal to the Italian People caused as much of a furore as the one to
the voters last fall,
Italy says they know Fiume was not in their secret treaty with other
Allies But its a nice town and they hate to see it fall into bad hands,
Get all those Nations sore enough to start telling the truth about each
other, We will hear something,
Italy claims Fiume because there is more Italians there than anybody
else, according to that Look whod get NEW YORK
Japans claims are sorter novel "They want pay for capturing part of
China one of our own Allies"
They have offered to protect Siberia if they have to stay there forever to
do it,
If Japan gets all her claims China will pay more indemnities than
Germany who lost the war,
Imagine Japan, Pres Wilson, and Italy, All talking at once, Good thing
they cant understand each other or this Conference would never have
lasted this long,

AND THEY CALL THAT A PEACE CONFERENCE,
Guess those CZECHO POLOKS have gotten their freedom, I see where
they are at war.
Wish I could find a man who had read this LEAGUE OF NATIONS,
And could tell which was the Assembly and which was the Council,
Thats a good clause in there "where any Allied Nation must give three
months notice before it jumps onto any other Allied Nation,"
Now the Women want to send Deligates, They forget this is a Peace
Conference,
See where the German Deligates to the Peace Table brought their Golf
Clubs We can see now how Admiral Graysons Pupil stacks up against
opposition,
See where Pres Wilson and Italy have compromised on that town down
there Italy got it,
Its kinder new wrinkle in Diplomacy, The Slovaks can play with it four
years till they begin to like it, And then they take it away from them,
AS I UNDERSTAND IT ITALY IS TO HAVE IT TUESDAYS AND
SATURDAYS,
But they are going to build those other People (with that terrible name)
A little young town just as much like this one as they can, down the
river aways
Guess the reason they put a four year limit on it, Was that they figured
that would about cover the existence of any of those new Nations,
The Idea over there now seems to be lets get something ready to sign
up, Whether its any good or not,
See where Pres Wilson and Japan compromised on that CHOW CHOW
PLACE JAPAN GETS IT,

I dont know how much money Indemnity Japan will demand from
China,
You know CHINA has one of the best JAPANESE Armies in the World,
See where Pres Wilson and England compromised on Freedom of the
Seas England got it,
Italy left the Conference and got what she wanted, Japan threatened to
leave and got what she wanted, If Pres Wilson had left some
Republican Senators would have gotten what they wanted,
Seems several Nations were like Jesse Willard they wanted to know
what they were to get before they entered the Arena,
Well they finally handed Germany the Peace terms 80 thousand words
only thing ever written longer than a Lafollette Speech,
HAD TO BE THAT LONG TO TELL THE GERMANS WHAT
THEY THOUGHT OF THEM
Imagine what a document for Lawers to pick flaws in,
Could have settled the whole thing in one sentence, "IF YOU BIRDS
START ANYTHING AGAIN WE WILL GIVE YOU THE OTHER
BARREL,"
RUSSIA cant get in on this Peace There is not enough Paper in the
World to print 80 thousand Russian words on,
If they want to get even with Germany they ought to let them keep their
Cables And appoint Burleson to run them
I thought the Armistace terms read like a second Mortgage, But this
reads like a FORECLOSURE,
If Germany ever wants to go to war again she will have to fight with
BEER STEINS

If Germany stops to read those 80 thousand words before they sign
them, We needent expect Peace to be signed for years yet,
Now Folks with all this kidding and foolishness aside, for I just say in
here whatever I think anybody might laugh at, But of course my real
sentiments are the same as everybody else, anything to prevent war If
He puts this thing through and there is no more wars, His address will
be WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON D C till his whiskers are as long
as the Peace Treaty If it should be a Fliv, (which it wont) Why then a
letter would reach him at ALABI NEW JERSEY. So all Credit to Pres
Wilson it took some game Guy to go through with it,
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