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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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