[82] Cf. _Le Matin_, July 9, 1919. The chief speakers alluded to were MM. Renaudel, Deshayes, Lafont, Paul Meunier, Vandame. [83] _The New York Herald_ (Paris edition), April 29, 1919. [84] Quoted in the Paris _Temps_ of March 28,1919. [85] This explanation deals exclusively with the first advance of the Rumanian army into Hungary. [86] Cabled to _The Public Ledger_ of Philadelphia, April 20,1919. [87] _Bonsoir_, June 21, 1919. [88] Cf. _The Daily News_, July 5,1919. _L'Humanité_, July 8, 1919. [89] Cf. _The New York Herald_ (Paris edition), April 4, 1919. [90] _The Chicago Tribune_ (Paris edition), July 31, 1919. V AIMS AND METHODS The policy of the Anglo-Saxon plenipotentiaries was never put into words. For that reason it has to be judged by their acts, despite the circumstance that these were determined by motives which varied greatly at different times, and so far as one can conjecture were not often practical corollaries of fundamental principles. From these acts one may draw a few conclusions which will enable us to reconstruct such policy as there was. One is that none of the sacrifices imposed upon the members of the League of Nations was obligatory on the Anglo-Saxon peoples. These were beyond the reach of all the new canons which might clash with their interests or run counter to their aspirations. They were the givers and administrators of the saving law rather than its observers. Consequently they were free to hold all that was theirs, however doubtful their title; nay, they were besought to accept a good deal more under the mandatory system, which was molded on their own methods of governance. It was especially taken for granted that the architects would be called to contribute naught to the new structure but their ideas, and that they need renounce none of their possessions, however shady its origin, however galling to the population its retention. It was in deference to this implicit doctrine that President Wilson withdrew without protest or discussion his demand for the freedom of the seas, on which he had been wont to lay such stress.