Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-03-25

I attend a critical meeting of the Su-
| preme War Council that afternoon al
the Quai d'Orsay.
The commission resumed their
work at $3.50 in the afternoon unde'
| the leadership of Lord Robert Cecil.
| one by one they took up the remain
ing articles; one by n they were
passed upon. At. 7:4S Lord Robert
sitting low in his chat was holding
The lapels of his coat, read the twenty
sixth article:
Amendments to this covenant will
take effect when ratified by the states
who's representatives compose the
executive council and by three-fourths
of the states whose representatives
compose the body of delegates"
rs there my objection TO this arti-
cle?' He waited a moment. IF not
1t is adopted. Gentlemen, our work Is
done. The president of the United
States will report our conclusion to a
plenary session of the conference to-
morrow"
They left the room.
Able Men at Table.
Lord Robert Cecil with his scholar
~ mind, his practical sense n his
large vision was ably seconded in
presenting the point of view of the
British empire by General SHUTS, tho
great Boer leader of other days. a
MEMBER OF the bTIliSH war 1OulCIA
and the author of a WIDELY read
pamphlet of the league idea. Leon
Bourgeois, well advanced In years of
service at the Hague conferences in
the interests of peace had with him
Lsarnaude, dean of the faculty of law
at the Paris School of Law. Orlando
Italy's vivid prime minister and an
eminent jurist as well, a Senator
Scialoja as his colleague In expressing
a. -a.- - 49, ~ ID nnNn .
while Baron Maxine, Japanese fore
ign minister, and Viscount Chinda,
her ambassador at London, contribu-
ted the keen and quiet opinion of the
far eastern country.
Though these five powers were each
represented by two members on the
commission, its deliberations were not
dominated by their views. Their also
sat down to the table Hymans, the
Belgian foreign minister; Senator Pes
soa of Brazil; v. X. Wellington Koo,
China's minister at Washington: Kra-
MARI, prime minister of the Czecho-
Slovak republic; Venizelos, prime
minister of Greece; Dmowski. presi-
dent of the Polish National Commit
tee; Jayne Batalha Refs. Portuguese
minister plenipotentiary of Rumania,
and Vesnitch, Serbian minister at
Paris.
lIe1 lnCtuufu ItpIt StilldtlFto VI NiC
far east. South America and the old
est and newest states of Europe. This
striking group of statesmen, so keenly
interested that they presented an un-
broker record of attendance at the
meetings, contributed TO the discus
sions a force and vision which rival
led that of the greater powers.
No STRIKERS at Meetings.
The meetings were business-like to
- Nh ,~on,Anpu IN xa rio h1Nv
came together on the hour, exchanged
a word of greeting as they made their
way to their seats, took the docu-
ments of the day out of their port
folios, and proceeded with the next
article. Each of them found on the
table before him all new papers
upon which discussion might depend.
Every day, as the commission made
progress through the draft, there was
laid at each place q revised copy In
dicating Just what had been accomp-
lished on the day before. If there
were amendments to be proposed by
any member, he saw to Ii that they
were typewritten and distributed so
that each of his colleagues might ex-
anime their merits in advance.
The meetings were marked by ex-
treme simplicity. Diplomatic dress
had disappeared with II diplomacy
of the past. Each mar wore what was
convenient-dinner coat, morning coat
or business suit-and the business suit
prevailed. There was none OF that
sense of the overwhelming significance
OF the task which Is sometimes the
death of decision. They went about
the matter in a commonplace a