The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-04-14
ENGLISH ARE NOT
ENTHUSIASTIC
Like the Last Draft of the League of
Nations Less Than They
Did the First
lAssocia+ed Pressl

(Associa+ed PresS)
| London, April 1.-The summary of
the amendments to the league of
nations covenant evokes no enthus-
| iasm in the London morning news
papers, and it is declared by some
commentators less satisfactory than
/ the first draft.
COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS
Following is a summary of the
covenant of the league of nations as
published in Paris Saturday after
noon:
1. The league of nations is found
ed in order to promote international
cooperation and to secure peace, The
league will include:
| (a) The belligerent states named
in a document annexed to the cove
nant; (b) all the neutral states so
named, and (c) in the future any self
governing country whose admission
| is approved by two-thirds of the
states already members of the league.
A state may withdraw from the
league, providing it has kept its OBJ
legations to date, on giving two years
notice.
2. The league will act through an
assembly comprising not more than
three representatives of each of the
! member states, each state having only
one vote, and council comprising for
the present one representative of the
five great powers and each of four
other powers as selected from time to
time by the assembly.
Nav Increase Membership Only by
Unanimous Consent
The number of powers of each class
represented on the council may be in
creased by the unanimous consent OF
the council and a majority of the as
spmbly. Other powers have the right
to sit as members of the council dur
ing the decision of matters in which
they are especially interested.
In the council, as IN the assembly,
each state will have only one vote.
Both these bodies are to meet at
stated intervals (the council at least
once a year,, and at other times IL
required; both can deal with any
matter that is of international inter-
est or that threatens the peace OF the
world: the decision of both must be
unanimous, except in certain specified
cases, matters of procedure, for in
stance, being decided by majority
vote.
The league will have permanent
secretariat, under secretary-gener-
al. The secretariat and all other
bodies under the league may include
women, equally with men. A perma-
nent court of international justice and
various permanent commissions and
bureaus are also to be established.
Agree to Reduce Armaments
8. The member states agree: (a)
To reduce their ornaments. plans for
such reduction being suggested by the
council, but only adopted with the
consent of the states themselves, and
thereafter not to increase them with
out the concurrence of the council;
(b) to exchange full information of
their existing armies and their naval
and military programs; (c) to respect
each others territory and personal In
dependence, and to guarantee them
against foreign aggression; I'D to
submit all international disputes
either to arbitration or to inquiry by
the council, which latter, however,
may not pronounce an opinion on any
dispute whose subject matter falls
solely within states jurisdiction; in
no case to go to war till three months
after an award, or an unanimous rec
ommendation has been made, and
even then not to go to war with a
state which accepts the award or rec
ommendation; (e) to regard state
which has broken the covenant as
having committed an act of war
against the league, to break off all
economic and other relations with it
and to allow free passage through
their territories to the troops of those
states which are contributing armed
forced on behalf of the league. The
council is to recommend what amount
of force, if any, should be supplied by
the several governments concerned,
essary. Estates not members of the
league will be invited to accept the
obligations of the league for the pur-
pose of particular disputes, and If
they fail to comply may be forced.)
(f) Not to consider any treaty bind
ing until it has been communicated
to the league, which will then proceed
to publish it to admit the right of the
assembly TO advise the reconsidera-
ton of treaties and international con-
ditions which do not accord with pres
ent needs, and to be bound by no OBJ
legations inconsistent with the cove
nant.