Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-16
ITALIAN UNION
 FOR FRFf NATIONS
 HAS BEEN FORMED
Resolutions Presented Pres ident Wilson While Wis
 iting in Milan.

The most important resolution pre- sented to President Wilson ill Milan, Italy. on January ,, had been ap- proved by the convention for League of Free Nations in that city, as fol lows:
 "The convention of the Italian Fam l fly of the Universal Association for League of Free Nations" being con- vinced of the supreme necessity of avoiding the arising, amidst the vic, torious nations, of those nationalis- tic tendencies and imperialistic rival l ries from which the worlds war sprung and which would deprive the people, after so many sacrifices and :, deaths, of that assurance of justice | and ppace which is the wish and the demand of all those who fought in this war, as we'll as of all the peoples, and which was solemnly promised to them by q government in the hour of danger and struggle; recaking that the negotiations for the armis tice were subordinated to the consist ent acceptance, on the part of all the belligerent states, of President Viii sons fourteen points, with only ] reservation concerning the way of Interpreting the freedom of the seas': affirms the ecessity that at l the reace conference the League of Free Nations be constituted as a pre- 1 liminary organism for all other me- gotiations and the principles to which should direct the solution of each and every territorial or judicial problem created Nby the war.
 l The convention affirms the neces sity:
 i. That the discussions at the peace conference be conducted in public.
 ?. That the democratic current of Italian interventionism, just as it took l it's share of responsibilities for the wAr, be adequately represented in the delegation to teh eace confer enc.
 The convention, considering that. after the immense sufferings in all classes of all nations by a war which the whole world could not avoid af- ter the aggression of the central pow CTS; for the direct and general par ticipation even of women and chill dren in the sufferings and dangers of military operations; for the posi- tive fore knowledge of the frightful scientific ruthlessness of a new war; for the certainty that wherever new war would start, NO nation could avoid being dragged into it; consider
 ing, in short, that for all the experi- ence winch the whole world has had in four years of the worlds war, the determination has now become uni versal and firm in all civilized coun- tres, that new war should be made impossible at any cost; resolves that an intense and systematic action of propaganda among the people and of pressure and vigilance on the govern
 ments be organized among the en-
 tente natios, with a clear, practical, and we'll specified program as would dispel the legitimate doubts of all per-
 sons in good faith and be founded OH
 the following principles:
 1. France, Great Britain. Italy and
 the United States of America should take every initiative necessary to
 transform the anti-German powers
 into league of free nations for the preservation of peace.
 3. The preservation of peace shall
 not imply a perennial preservation at
 any cost of the international settle ment as may be the outcome of the
 present agreement among some na-
 tion; on the contrary, it shall be
 founded on the recognition of the so-
 cial duties of each nation towards it. ? self and the whole mankind having as supreme purposes the moral. intellec-
 tual and economical uplift of each and of all the nations, and it shall conform with the moral democratic ideas of these times and with such ideas as may in future be evolved in ! the conscience of the civilized na- 7 tions.
 7 3. The peace conference shall, f therefore. submit to arbitration all controversies among anti-German powers during the peace negotiations, when a direct agreement among the parties interested is videntiy impos-
 sible As to the problems which may rise from changes in the present mor- al and material conditions, the states , adhering to the league of free na- tions for the preservation of peace , shall bind themselves to:
 a. Submit all controversies to ar bitration when it is found impossrDie , to reconcile contrary x interests through direct negotiations.
 
 . by force of arms, to establish arbitra- tion proceedings and to see that the ;, decision so given is observed, com polling any state which should fail to pay the cost of damages.
 4. The states so associated shall
 a. Give themselves constitution : on the basis of popular representa- , tion. if they have not it already, by ! which the control on public financial estimates and expenditures be made : possible on the part of any repre-
 sentative of all the classes of both f the male and female population;
 b. Introduce into their constitu-
 tion, if they have not it already, the
 inhibition of any secret treaty; c. Have their codes contemplate r as a crime the circulation of false
 news intended to excite hatred among
 the nations;