PRESIDENT WILSON,
Paris.
Following from Wm. H. Taft:
Quote If you bring back the Treaty with the League of Nations in it, make more specific reservations of the Monroe Doctrine, fix a term for the duration of the League and the limit of armament, require expressly unanimity of action in Executive Council and Body of Delegates, and add to Article XV a provision that where the Executive Council of the Body of Delegates finds the difference to grow out of an exclusively domestic policy, it shall recommend no settlement, the ground will be completely cut from under the opponents of the League in the Senate. Addition to Article XV will answer objection as to Japanese immigration as well as tariffs under Article XXI. Reservation of the Monroe Doctrine might be as follows:
Any American state or states may protect the integrity of American territory and the independence of the government whose territory it is, whether a member of the League or not, and may, in the interests of American peace, object to and prevent the further transfer of American territory or sovereignty to any European or non-American power.
Monroe Doctrine reservation alone would probably carry the treaty but others would make it certain. (signed) Wm. H. Taft End Quote.
TUMULTY.
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Cablegram
The White House, Washington,
21 March, 1919.
PRESIDENT WILSON,
Paris.