Arizona republican., 1918-11-25
PUb[|SHRULES
 IF LEAGUE T0
 ENF0RCEPEACE
Taft Is President-Six De partments Are Created Every Safeguard Provided
 For The Weak Nations

NEW YORK, Nov 24.-Tne League to Enforce Peace announced here to- night it's victory program. It calls for the formation, at the coming peace congress, of a league of free nations possessing judicial, administrative and executive powers and functions. which would be so administered as to guar antee a permanent peace.
 The program, which. it was an nounced, already had been adopted by the New York Lea que of Free Nations association. as well as the League to Enforce Peace, was drafted by a spe ciaI committee of which William H. Taft, president of the league, was chairman.
 In announcing the program. which IS to be submitted for consideration and endorsement by all organizations and persons favoring international recon struction, the league made it plain that the program did not attempt to solve the details of world organization, but suggested the principles merely as basis for discussion and criticism. Platform of League The leagues platform follows:
 "The war now happily brought to close has been above all a war to end war. but in order to ensure the fruits of victory and to prevent the recur- renee of such a catastrophe. there should be formed league of free na- tions, as universal as possible, based upon treaty and pledged that the se- curity of each state shall rest upon the strength of the whole. The initiating nucleus of the membership of the league should be the nations associated as belligerents in winning the war.
 "The league should aim at promoting the liberty. progress and fair oppor- l tunity of all nations and the orderly l development of the world. It should ensure peace by eliminat- | ing causes of dissension, by deciding controversies by peaceable means and | by uniting the potential force of all the members as a standing menace against any nation that seeks to up- set the peace of the world.
 'The advantage of membership in | the league, both economically and from the point of view of security, should be so clear that all nations will desire to | be members of it.
 Features Are Named
 Tor this purpose it is necessary to create;
 "1-For the decision of justiciable questions, an impartial tribunal, whose jurisdiction shall not depend upon the assent of the parties to the contro- versy, provision to be made for en- forcing its decisions.
 l "2-For the questions that are not justiciable in their character, a coun- cil of conciliation, as mediator which shall hear, consider and make recon mendations. and. failing acquiescence by the parties concerned, the league shall determine what action, if any shall be taken.
 '3-An administrative organization for the conduct of affairs of common interest, the protection and care oi backward regions and international ized places, and such matters as have been jointly administered before anc during the war.
 A representative congress to for mulate and codify rules of interna- tional law, to inspect the work of the administrative bodies and to consider any matter affecting the tranquility O
 the world or the progress or bettermen
 of human relations.
 '5--An executive body, able to speal
 with authority in the name of the na.
 tions represented, and to act in cast
 the peace of the world is endangered.
 Such league must be formed a
 the time of the definitive peace, or tn,
 opportunity may be lost forever"