The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-01-31
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PART OF TREATY
President and Col. House
Members of Commission
WILSON OPENS THE DEBATE
Lloyd George, Bourgeois, Orlando And
Others Pledge Their Countries
Small Nations Protest
Against Decision.


Paris-The Peace Conference I'M
animously adopted the league of ma
lions project and appointed a commit
tee representing the associated gov
ernments to elaborate a constitution
for the league, including its preroga-
tiyes.
President Wilson opened the dis
cussion at the request of the perman-
emit chairman, Premier Clemenceau.
He was followed by Premier Lloyd
George for Great Britain, Leon Bour-
geois for France, Premier Orlando for
Italy and representatives of China AMI
Poland.
President Wilson and Col. E. NJ.
House were named as the American
members of the commission.
Representatives of the other great
powers will be: For Great Britain,
Lord Robert Cecil and Gen. Jan Chris
tan Smuts; for France, Leon Bour-
geois and Ferdinand Larnadude, dean
of the faculty of law of the University
of Paris; for Italy, Premier Orlando
and Viterio Scialoia; for Japan, Wis
count Chinda and X. Ochiai. The del
egates of the small nations will be
announced later.
The session of the Peace Conference
opened at 3 o'clock in the Sale de Ia
Paix of the Foreign Office with the
same imposing setting as the first SEES
sion, but with little ceremony and
the manifest purpose of business.
NJ Clelnenceau was again in the
chair, with President Wilson and the
full American delegation at his right,
and Premier Lloyd George and the
British delegation at his left.
NJ. Clemenceau read a resolution Cd
the league of nations to the effect that
such league was to be organized by
international cooperation for the pur-
pose of making secure international
obligations and safeguarding the ma
tons against war. The league would
be an integral part of the peace treaty
and would be opened to all civilized
nations favoring its aims.
In opening the discussion President
Wilson declared the conference had
solemn obligations to make perman-
ent settlement The present confer 4
ence, the President added, could not
complete its work until some further
machinery of settlement should be set
up.
eve are not here alone" he said ''as
representatives of governments, but as
representatives of peoples and in the
settlements We make we need to sat-
isfy, not the opinions of governments,
but the opinion of mankind"
President Wilson contended that
league of nations must be vital thing
and not casual or occasional. 1t must
have continuity.
ut should be the eye Of nations, an
eye which never slumbers," he de-
clared.
On his travels, the President said.
people everywhere had greeted the
league, as the first thing in their in
terest
Select classes of men no longer di-
rect the affairs of the world said the
President, but the fortunes of the
world are now in the hands of the
plain people.
aThe wish of the people, therefore.
must be heard The war had swept
away those old foundations by which
small coteries had used mankind as
pawns in game" Nothing but eman-
cipation from the old system he CON
tended. would accomplish real peace.
The President saw American SOL
diers in the streets-soldiers who had
come, not alone for war, but as "cru-
saders in a great cause" and he add
ed land l, like them, must be a
crusader, whatever it costs to accom-
plish that end"
After declaring that the conference
was for the purpose of settlement
arising out Of the war and to make
peace for the world, President Wilson
said:
"A league of nations seems neces-
sary for both purposes. There are
many questions which we feel cannot
ultimately be worked out here, that
may require subsequent consideration.
subsequent alterations even to some
degree"
He described how the war burden
was borne by the people as well as by
the armies and said:
I'VE are hidden by these sufferers
to make peace secure for them and see
to it that the strain need never to
be borne again"