Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-25
FORMED
FOR LEAGUE OF
FREE nations
"Victory Program Announced
by League to Enforce
Peace as Basis for
Discussion.

New York, Nov. 24.-The League
to Enforce Peace announced here
tonight its victory program"
1t calls for the formation at the
coming peace congress of league
OF free nations possessing judicial,
administrative and executive powers
and functions which would be so ad-
minstered as to guarantee perman-
ent peace.
The program, which, it was an
nounced. already had been adopted
by the New York League of Free
Nations association as we'll as the
League to Enforce Peace, was draft
ed by special committee OF which
William H. Taft president of the
league, was chairman. Other men,
bers of the committe were A. Law
renee Lowell, president of Harvard
university; Oscar H. Straus, former
minister to Turkey; Theodore Mar
burg, former minister to Belgium;
Hamilton Holt, Talcott Williams
and William Fl. Short of New York
and Glenn Frank of Boston.
In announcing the program, which
is to be submitted for consideration
and endorsement by all organiza-
tons and persons favoring interna-
tional reconstruction, the league
made it plain that the program did
not intend to solve the details of
world organization, but suggested
the principles merely as basis for
discussion and criticism.
Leagues Platform.
The leagues platform follows:
The war now happily brought
to close has been above all war
to end war, but in order to ensure
the fruits of victory and to prevent
the recurrence Of such a castrophe
there should be formed league of
tree nations, as universal as possible.
based upon treaty and pledged that
the security Of each state shall rest
upon the strength of the whole.
The initiating nucleus of the men,
bership of the league should be the
nations associated as belligerents in
winning the war.
The league should aim at pro-
noting the liberty, progress and fair
economic opportunity of all nations
and the orderly development of the
world
1T should ensure peace by elmi-
mating causes of dissenSion, by de-
Gliding controversies by peaceable
means and by uniting the potential
force OF all the members as a stand
ing menace against any nation that
seeks to upset the peace of the
world.
The advantage of membership in
the league, both economically and
from a point of security, should be
so clear that all nations will desire
10 be members Of it.
For this purpose it is necessary
to create:
"l-For the decision of justciable
questions, all impartial tribunal
whose jurisdiction shall not depend
upon the assent of the parties to
the controversy, provision to be
made for enforcing its decisions.
"2-For the questions that are not
justiciable in their character a
council of Cancellation as mediator,
which shall hear, consider and make
recommendation, and failing acqui-
escence by the parties concerned,
the league shall determine what &C
ton, if any, shall be taken.
"3-An administrative organiza-
ton for the conduct of affairs of
common interest, the protection
and care of backward regions and
lnternationalized places, and such
matters as have been jointly admin
istered before and during the war.
"A representative congress to
formulate and codify rules of in
ternational law, to inspect the work
of the administrative bodies and to
consider any matter affecting the
tranquility of the world or the prog
ress or betterment of human rela-
tions.
"5-An executive body, able to
speak with authority i'll the name
of the nations represented. and to
report in case the peace of the world
is endangered.
Such league must be formed at
the tine Q. fthe dehnitive peace. or
the opportunity may be lost for
ever"