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to share the burden of the nations in
making the world, their common her.
itage, place where peacefully in
clined states can be secure in their
rights and liberties. Oceans which
formerly required months to traverse
have shrunk almost to rivers with the
advent of modern means of communi-
cation. The day has passed for main
tanning Americas traditional policy Of
isolation, as it passed half century
ago for the maintenance of japan OF
her peculiar policy of isolation.
The Leagues ProPosalS-Article One.
'AIl justiciable questions arising be-
tween the signatory powers, not set
tied by negotiation, shall. subject to
the limitations of treaties, be submit
ted to judicial tribunal for hearing
and judgment. both upon the merits
and upon any issue as to its jurisdic-
ton of the question"
Article Two.
"All other questions arising between
the signatories and not settled by ne
gotiation, shall be submitted to a
a council of Cancellation for hearing,
consideration and recommendation"
Article Three.
The signatory powers shall jointly
use forthwith both their economic and
military forces against any one OF
their number that goes to war, or
commits acts of hostility, against an
other of the signatories before any
question arising shall be submitted
as provided in the foregoing"
The following Interpretation Of Ar
ticle Three has been authorized by the
executive committee:
The signatory powers shall jointly
use, forthwith, their economic forces
against any of their number that re-
fuses to submit any question which
arises to an international judicial
tribunal or council of Cancellation be-
fore threatening war. They shall fol-
low this by the joint use of their mill
tary forces against that nation If 1t
actually proceeds to make war or in
vades another's territory without first
submitting, or offering to submit,
its grievance to the court or council
aforesaid and awaiting it's conclusion.
Article Four.
Conferences between the signatory
powers shall be held from time to
time to formulate and codify rules of
international law. which, unless some
signatory shall signify its dissent
within a stated period, shall thereaft-
er govern in the decisions of the judi
ciaf tribunal mentioned in article one"
These proposals are put forward as
pointing out the road along which the
nations must sooner or later travel in
their efforts to establish a just and
stable peace, and not as a complete
and final plan. 1t is realized that they
are not free from objections. The rep
of the nations assembled
to draw up a treaty which should
establish a League to Enforce Peace
would no doubt modify them. They
might not be willing to go so far as is
here proposed; they might wish to go
much farther and to provide for a
more complete form of world govern
ment than is now suggested.
Full confidence in the general wis.,
dom of the plan existed, however,
among the three hundred distinguish
ed men who composed the Independ-
ence Hall conference and the much
larger number who had examined and
approved the resolutions but were UNI
able to attend. It was felt to be of
vital importance to begin now the uni
ication of opinion around plan so
simple as to be practical and attain
able, so that a great body of support
ers in many lands will be prepared to
present and urge it upon the atten- |
ton Of their governments when the |
OF Europe and Of the |
world is under consideration at the |
close of the war.