Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-24
French Censor Permits Print
ing of What Is Said To Be
Official Program of New
International Agreement.
GERMANY BARRED
FROM DISCUSSION
NeutraIS May Be Admitted in
Second Stage Provided They
Give Proper Guarantees of
Their Good Faith.

thf MoHhiNo JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiRsl
Paris. Dec. 23.-~The Matln today
was authorized to print the article
which was censored yesterday. The
article. the first headline Of which
read:
Yesterdays utopia tomorrow's
reality, sets forth the manner of
procedure of the promoters of a
league of nations acting In agreement
with the allied governments"
The formation of a league of ma
lions the article says. will be in three
stages, The allied governments will
decide the principles Of such an or
ganization which will include com
pulsory arbitration and limitation of
ornaments. Germany and her for
mer allies will then be told that they
must accept these principles, after
which the treaty of peace will be for
mulated. Later, conference will be
held to discuss the formation of q
league. Neutrals will be admitted,
the article continues, but Germany
would not have an equal standing I'M
I'll she had eXpiated her misdeeds and
before she can do so an international
organization will be working.
To BE Three Stages.
There will be three stages the
Matin says, First, the allied govern
ments will settle among themselves
the principles OF league. As a fun
damental rule they will set down the
right of peoples to decide their own
destinies, As q practical consequences
II follows that there win he limita-
ton of ornaments and compulsory
arbitration among the nations. 1t
seems Indispensable that this point
the entente countries bind themselves
TO put these clauses in the prelimi-
naries of peace.
ut has appeared absolutely neces-
sary to the promoters that the regime
Of the future world chould be fixed
in its main outlines before there are
any questions Of indemnities and ter
ritories, so that for the first time in
history the deliberations of the plen-
ipotentiaries should be dominated by
higher ideals than mere individual in
terest.
THE second act will consist in no.
ufying the enemy powers of the fun
damental principles laid down in the
preliminaries and requiring from
them their adhesion to those princi-
pies AS to other conditions of peace
preliminaries, as In the case of stipu-
lations of territorial, financial and
economic character, no discussion
will be admitted. The entente dele
gates will say to Germany and her
allies:
+" Compulsory arbitration and linz
itation Of armaments are integral
parts Of our conditions You must
subscribe to them at once. You Will
know later how these principles will
be applied
Universal Conference.
The preliminaries once signed, de-
tails Of the peace treaty will be dis
cussed among the beligerents and
only after the signing of this treaty
OF peace proper will the third stage
be reached. This will be a universal
conference to settle the new relations
created between the peoples.
ITO this conference, neutrals may
HE admitted. No nation, however
will be admitted to full membership
in the league of nations If it does not
offer sufficient guarantees
Germany having started the war
will have been condemned by tine
peace conference to make restitution
and reparation. She cannot be re-
garded MS being on an equal footing
with other nations until she has paid
her debt Germany has committed a
crime and she must atone for IL be-
fore she can be admitted to the ranks
of honest and civilized peoples.
Meanwhile, the other countries
will be united by formal agreements.
a world police will have been Great
ed and sanctions of all kinds will
have been instituted. An internation-
al tribunal will be working and tho
spectre of war. as far as it is hum
AMY possible will be banished from
the path of civilization"