Evening journal., 1919-10-11
The League Within the League
Persia Will Make it Seven
lFrom Ihe New York SUM

monwealth as, he STYLES il here VIII
enter the League Of Nations, lhe
Treaty Of Versailles becomes Yalld, not
az a single Government like the unlleu
States. like France, Ike Italy. ike
Japan. but as plural entity. a ieaeue
within league: congeries OF pa-
iionalities separate and Independents Tor
the first time in the sense of absolnte
autonomy In the matter Of external re-
lations. but acting together unuer
single imperial fag and bound together
i'm common purpose against the rest OF
the larger League by bonds OF Imperial
sentiment and patriotic allegiance Whlcn
they themselves would be the quickest
to recoFnizc-a league, we say, as olr
Robert Borden says. within the League
The league within the League mus
described by Sir Robert Borden as pos
sesslng a status and exercising rep
reseniative vote in the Assembly on
par with other signatory Powers. ana
not 20 be distinguished as he says
from the other signatory Powers IN tllls
respect. consists at tho outset Of these
six original members:
4. The British EmpirfB
9, Canada;
81 Australia;
I. South Africa;
>. New Zealand:
G. India.
There Is a readily conceivable al
though decidedly not a perfect analogy
l 10 the triumph OF interior league build
| ing achieved at Paris with Lloyd
| Georges approval by Sir Robert BOT
| den through the Canadian delegates
Minister Dougherty and Minister Slf-
| ton, and with the assistance OF Prime
Minister Hughes, Of Australia and Gen
eral SHUTS and the other representa-
tives Of the outlying nationalities OF
the British system. This conceivable
/ parallel would have been afforded Dy
! President Wilson's success-supposlng
! him TO have been impelled TO the etOrt
/ by a sudden resurgence Of devotion TO
the old doctrine Of State sovereignty-
in securing Premier Clemenceau's and
Premier Lloyd Georges assent to an
arrangement by which every one OF
the forty-eight States i'm our Union OF
States should have its representatives
and It's vote in the Assembly Of the
League Of Nations. We are aware that
our written Constitution takes away
from the States the power to appear
and speak i'm international matters,
while the unwritten British iCOnsttu-
tion does not bar the DominLns from
that function, although up to this time
precedent and practice have done so
One parallel may be little strained IN
this respect, but perhaps not more 50
than that the conception Of natiOnhoOd
which leads Sir Robert BOrden-at least
by implication-to put self-governed
Canada and imperially governed India
in the same class.
We may also note the not unim-
pOrtant circumstance that the British
league within league promises Ia
grow larger and numerically stronger
in its voting power. Without discuss
ing the propriety of adding at present
TO this vote of six the vote which is tC
be cast in the Assembly by the new
and independent kingdom Of TIediaz
six is practically already swollen tC
seven by the disclosure Of Grea
Britain's new, and from her point O.
view highly OppOrtune treaty with Per
sia. As senator Mccormick pointed OIL
In our Senate on Monday. the benevo
. lcnL dSSllIllidllOn or Persia by Brltall
is as clearlyly indicated in the compac
rushed through before the League pro
hibition can become operative as wa
the benevolent assimilation and ulli
mate absorption OF Egypt by England
steady policy since 1881 and the day
of Ahmed Arab.
Now, Persia is by the covenant a
original member OF the League of Ma
tions-the larger and exterior league
From events which have occurred al
most unnOticed in the shadow of IN
general situation it would appear tina
the British Government. with its az
customed sharp eye TO the main chanc
when imperial and international inter
ests are concerned, has already prC
9 vidcd for the entrance OF Persia M
v merely into the League Of Nations, bl
= into the league within a league-th
s Brittanic community so described b
= Sir Robert Borden. And thus the 81
l. votes would become seven.