New Britain herald., 1916-04-04
ASKS FOR DELEGATES
 FROM NEW BRITAIN
Taft Wants City Represented at
 Convention of Peace League

A. H. Andrews, secretary of the ] New Britain Chamber of Commerce, l has received communication rom ] ex-President William H. Taft, asking that delegates be sent from here to the first annual national assemblage ] of the League to Enforce Peace, to be held in Washington on May 26 and 1 27 MT. Taft is the president of the league.
 With a view to having the country's s business men we'll represented at the leagues first annual conference, MT. Taft has sent a like invitation to all , of the commercial organizations which have a membership in the Charmber of Commerce of the United States. The national Chamber of Con- merce adopted through a referendum
 held recently, an international peace
 plan similar in character to that out
 lined in the platform of the League
 to Enforce Peace, which consists of
 the following four proposals:
 An international court,
 An international council of concilia-
 tion,
 
 armed and economic forces of all the sgnatory powers to compel a sub-
 mission of international disputes to the court or council before begin ming hostilities or declaring war,
 An international code.
 The point of difference between the Taft Leagues plan and that of the national Chamber of Commerce, lies ho 1of .anization having failed to adopt by a two-thirds vote, the joint armed force" clause. The idea of an eco- nomical boycott, however, was sus- tained. .--.
 Taft's Letter.
 MT. Taft, in his letter received here sums up the situation as follows:
 '"The commercial organizations constituting the Chamber of Com merce of the United States by their votes on Referendum Number Eleven expressed approval of the fundament- al principle of the League to Enforce Peace. Indeed all the specific rec concentrations excepting one were carried by majorities in excess of two-thirds. Among the recommend2- tions thus adopted was one favorlnS the organization of a system of com mercial and financial non-intercourse, to be applied to a nation which en- 1 tered the proposed league of nations ! a .ld then went to wat without first l a difference which arose 1 to an agreed upon tribunal.
 The one recommendation which | just failed to r:ceiEe tle tWo-thirdS i ma ority necessary to con. init the i National chamber to the proposition was that which provided Tor the use 1 of concerted military fo.'re in the l event that commercial non-int .c course proved in sufficient 10 compel 1 nations which Etvo proceeded to wal to desist from military operations 1 anI submit the questions at issue t7 an international court rc council of l 
 Whatever may b. the ultimate de cisior of the league of nations when instituted upon this point it would seem that for present pra ctical Dur- poses the League to Enforce Pc .ce nay be looked upon as an agency which your organ; ia tion may work for the common program en oraced within the approval of the ] vote.
 It is from this point of view, there ore, that your organization is asked 0 send a delegation to annual meet ng of the league.'
 When the Chamber of Commerce 1 was submitted last No- yember MT Taft wrote to the presi- Tents of local commercial organiza- ions as follows:
 ''The irremediable injury that would 'esult to the whole world in case a way should not be found, at the close If the European conflict, to make var less threatening, and to render t less frequent, has induced a con- siderable number of leaders in the ealms both of statesmanship and of business to combine in an effort to reate sentiment in our own and 'ther countries, in favor of the pro- 'osals that were put forward at the conference.
 "The obvious and urgent need that ed the committee of the chamber tO raW up it's admirable report, and he board of directors to authorize it's admission, is an eloquent argument n favor of a combined effort to do III which human ingenuity and devo- ion can, to prevent the recurrence { f such a catastrophe as the world is , oW experiencing" |,
 The League to Enforce Peace was ( rganized at Philadelphia in Inde- endence hall, June r, last year. lnce then state branches have been ormed, or are in process of forma- f on in all of the states and District l Columbia. It has the support of ( large number of men of prOminencc Y