Arizona republican., 1918-03-20
RESOLUTION FOR NATIONS LEAGUE
 IS UP TO LORDS
Approval of Principle of League of Nations Sought
 Is Preliminary Move and Lords Debate Question
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 LONDON, March 19.-In the house of lords today Lord Parmoor moved a resolution approving the principle of the league of nations and the con- stitution of a tribunal whose orders should be enforcible by adequate sanction.
 In speaking on this subject Lord Lansdowne said two essentials were requisite for league of nations. The first was that it must be open to all and comprise all the important pow CTS, while the second was that it should be armed with executive pow CTS sufficient to secure unquestion- able obedience to its decisions.
 Would Guarantee Peace
 Lord Lansdowne said he believed that if the league was able to apply pressure in different shapes, it could guarantee peace in the civilized world, or at least secure a delay for discus sion and conciliation which would, in many cases, effectually avoid the threatened dangers. He believed the omens were entirely favorable to the formation of such a league, one of the most hopeful omens being the inter- ests taken in it in the United States, without whose adhesion, the consum- nation of the idea would be beyond reach.
 Americas Great Weapon
 Considering Americas great world trade, he said, there was no country which could use the economic weapon so effectually. Expressing agreement with President Wilson's idea that II might be necessary to exclude Ger many from free economic intercourse if she continues to disturb the peace, Lord LansdoWne discussed the ad- mission of the central powers to the league. Regarding the suggested inn possibility of admitting Germany be- cause she could not be trusted, he said nobody proposed to rely on the Ger man pledge or on the German sigma ture. The essence of the proposal was that the powers admitted to partner ship would, to some extent, part with their sovereign rights and enter intC compact to conform to whatever rule of international law was laid down by the league itself. If the league, he argued, was able to pro- nounce sentence for international out lawry, there would be material guarantee of the maintenance of peace unlike anything the world hitherto had been able to conceive.
 Might Have Stopped War
 Lord Lansdowne believed that had a league of nations existed in 1914 there would have been far greater opportunities for peace makers. He desired to see the central powers in- cluded, because Germany always had been the great anarchist of Europe always had played for her own ends and always had taken short cuts and flouted the idea of a peaceful dis cussion.
 If Germany could be yoked into the harness of an organization of this kind, he contended, more would bt done to get rid of Prussian militarisn than by any other conceivable means Quite apart from this proposal, how ever, there must be a settlement o1 the outstanding difficulties before tho war was brought to an end.
 T would not consent to league oi nations as substitute for a satis- | factory territorial settlement said Lansdowne.
 Is Necessary Preliminary
 Such a settlement is necessary as g preliminary to the creation of { 1 league of nations"
 "A settlement would not be complet, without an arrangement of territoria claims and the machinery to maintain | future peace.
 Admitting the enormous difficultie: l of the problem, Lord Lansdowne sait it would be mistake, for instance, tt | link the question of disarmament tot closely with the question of a leagu' | of nations. At the same time, h, added, the league would have an i'm portant reaction on the armamen question because. the democracies o l the world were sick of the burden o ! heavy armament. Therefore he be lieved, disarmament would follow al most automatically.
 Pleading earnestly for a league 0 nations as a means for saving futur generations form a recurrence of tn present trouble, Lord Lansdown maintained that no crushing of tn enemy could be regarded as a fina crushing; that a success in the fiel' would be no guarantee of securing world peace. From the present ill there was only one way he said, t attain this, namely, by a league 0 nations, which was an outline of tn real promised land and which h | hoped would be attained.