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NEW COVENANT
LEAGUE NATIONS
Revised Draft Made Public
by State Department at
Washington
MEETS CRITICISM
OF OPPONENTS


Provision for withdrawal of Any
Men .ber-Great Britain's influence
Restricted.
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Modifed
so as to meet the criticisms of some of
its principal American opponents, the
revised draft of the covenant of the
league of nations was made public at
the state department yesterday after
noon by Acting Secretary Frank L.
Polk.
Criticism of the original covenant as
published Feb II is met by the fol
lowing provisions;
Tho validity Of the Monroe Doe
trinc is specifically recognized in Arti
ele 81.
2-Provision is made in Article l
for the withdrawal of any member ma
ton from the league upon two years
notice and provided all of its obliga
tons have been fully discharged.
3--The article outlining the machin-
cry for the appointment of manufactures
over people heretofore under the SOW
creignty of the Central powers would
give mandates to nations whose re
sources, experience and geograp hical
position can best undertake this re-
sponsibility, and who are willing to
accept it.
ARTICLE %, which concludes the
text of the covenant, provides the ma
ehinery by which the covenant can be
amended.
5-Immigration and similar ques-
tions are covered by a paragraph in
Article Is, which provides that the
council shall make no recommendation
for settlement of dispute solely with
in the domestic jurisdiction of one of
the parties.
6-While Great Britain and her Do
minions are to be full members of the
league assembly they will not be able
10 control the action of either the as
sembly or the council. This apparently
Is assured by Article 5, requiring Eek
cept where otherwise expressly provid
cd in this covenant decision at any
meeting of the assembly or the council
shall require the agreement of all mem
bers of the league represented at the
meeting Y
The humane purposes of the league
q
amble, which follows;
TN order to promote internationa
cooperation and to achieve interna
tional peace and security, by the &C
ceptance of obligations not to resor
to war, by the prescription of open
Just and honorable relations betwee
nations, by the firm establishment o
the understandings of internatiOna
law as to actual rule of conduct anon
governments, and by the maintenance
of just and scrupulous respect for a
treaty obligations in the dealings o
organized peoples with one another, tn
high contracting parties agree to TIN
covenant of the league of nations.
eThe seat of the league is establishe
at Geneva
The council may at any time deciC
that the seat of the league shall
established elsewhere.
All positions under or in connectio
withs the league, including the seer
tariat, shall be open equally to mt
and women.
The members of the league agr,
that if there should arise between the
any dispute likely to lead to ru
turc, they will submit the matter eth
to arbitration or to inquiry by t
council and they agree in no case
resort to war until three months aft
the award by the arbitrator or I
report by the council.
In any case under this article t
award of the arbitrators shall be ma
within reasonable time and the
port of the council shall be made wit
in six months after the submission
tho dispute.
The members of the league agr
that whenever any dispute shall ar
between them which they recognize
be suitable for submission to arbitl
ton and which cannot be satisfactor
settled by diplomacy, they will subn
the whole subject matter to arbit1
ton.
Disputes as to the Interpretation
a treaty, as to any question of int
national law, as to the existence of a
fact which if established would c.
stitute breach of international oil
. CATION, or as to the extent and nat
OF the reparation to be made for q
such breach. are declared to be amc
those which are generally suitable
submission for arbitration.
Original members of the league
nations. Signatories of the treaty
peace:
Bolivia, Brazil, British Empire, Ca
da, Australia, South Africa, New So
Wales, India, China, Cuba. Czecho-s