The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-02-22
President Wilson Bringing Back
Completed Draft of League
of Nations Plan.
.sEYERER ARMIsIIcE TERMS
Arrogant Huns to, ee Made to Realize
They Were Whipped-Ebert Elected
President Of the German Be
public-Revolt Against the
King of Roumania.
ny EDWARD W. PIckARp.

President Wilson is bringing home
with him the virtually complete draft
Of the, constitution of the League OF
s Nations that is to allay If not to end
most Of the worlds Ills. Despite
marked opposition in some quarters,
Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Lloyd George.
;. earnestly supported by the smaller ma
lions were able to have presented a
document that met with the approval
Of the commission of the league, and
this was then presented to the plenary
session Of the peace conference, with
every prospect that 1t would be adopt
ia. - - /. !: -
As 1t stands. the plan provides for a
small body Of representatives Of all
the nations concerned, which shall
meet every few months in a place to
be internanonaiized. Every difference
between nations is to be submitted to
this governing body and to be decided
within three months. during which
time the ,contending PARTIES must re-
.frain from, acts, Of hostility. IF the
decision Is not accepted. the case. will
be submitted TO arhitrators and II the
country they place in the wrong does
not accept the ruling and has recourse
to, arms. all other nations in. q posi-
stion to dosso will take up arms against
II. No country Is obliged ito 60 TO war
with the offending nation; but all must
Join In an economic boycott of the lat
ter. @ asA -
France, which, since the outbreak of
the great war, justly considers herself
an outpost nation guarfingsa frontier
Of civilization, strongly urged the crea-
ton Of an immediate international
army and. navy to enforce the rulings
Of the society of nations. Leon Bour
geois argued earnestly Tor the con-
st1tution OF, such q force and for the
placing Uf It in France until all danger
OF an attack BY. Germany was at an
end. This was opposed. especially by
American and British representatives.
who showed that 1t was contrary to the
constitutions of their countries. The
long discussion ended In an agreement
that Il country. should be attacked.
In Notation OF the rules of the league
the attacked country would employ
her military forces as covering
troops" and await aid from those. 9TH
&C nations that could most easily give
It. ~
1t is scarcely conceivable that this
solution Of the question can be salts
factory to France. The great war
demonstrated that in sudden shock
[ attack a nation can suffer immense
damage before her allies can mobilize
their forces and transport them to the
sesae OF conflict This Il just what
France fears will happen again with
Germany again as the aggressor, and
her alarm, though 1t may be as fool
| ish as some correspondents think 1T,
| will not be allayed until or unless the
allies render the Huns miIitarily Inn
| potent before the treatyyof- peace is
sisned. There is a growing feeling in
Rlllb tllt tho lAneTleln and BlllgA
| delegates are disposed to be too Ieni-
ent with Germany and too prone to
adopt the insidious claim OF the Ger.
mans themselves that their former rpl-
ers and not the people were RESPONSE
sble for the war and Its horrors. The
French reassert the well-known fact
| that the German people as a whole ar
IDENTIFY supported their governments In
the conduct Of the war and gave ap'
proyal to the outrages committed by
officers and soldiers alike. ~
Having adopted constitution and
elected Friedrich Ebert as president OF