Statement from Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, member of the Foreign Relations Committee

Statement from Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, member of the Foreign Relations Committee

Pittman, Key, 1872-1940

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1918 November 11

No one could represent President Wilson in Paris. He must go.

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920)

World War, 1914-1918--Peace

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Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.

The Armistice is a full compliance with the demands made by the President. It has accomplished everything that could have been accomplished by forcing an unconditional surrender to our armies upon the field. Germany has been placed in a position where she is powerless to again renew the fight. The President’s determination that the German people should have a democratic government has been accomplished. Militarism in Germany has not only been defeated but destroyed. The very roots of arbitrary government have been torn from the soil of Europe. The President’s matchless diplomacy is now clear to the world. It was his dominating statesmanship and will that placed our overwhelming army and resources in Europe. It was his diplomacy that precipitated the internal dissolution of the Imperial German Empire and its allies. He will sit at the peace table in person because there is no man who is qualified to represent him, and from that conference will come the establishment of the principles that he has advocated and which will mean an enduring peace. He will not again be charged with the disposition to surrender to Germany. His diplomacy will never again be charactrised as mischievous and treacherous. The American people will not again be deceived and they will back him as a man in his fight for the principles that he will maintain at the peace conference.

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