Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
What Action Will
Be Taken Is
UnknOWn
ADJUSTMENTS
MUST BE MADE

Paris. April 2S.-The revised
covenant of the League OF Ma
tions. which was made public
i'll the United States this morn
ing. is before plcnary session
of the Peace Conference to-day
for final action. What is in
store for it there is not vet clear,
as negotiations have been active
for the past few days with 4
view to adjusting the reserva-
tions made by the French. Jap
ancsc and Belgians when the
committee adopted the revised
text.
The French amendments
were designed to reinforce
French military security, but
these may not be pressed owing
to the military security which
France obtains under the settle
ment of the Rhine frontier.
The japanese delegates have not
yet indicated whether they will re-
new their amendment on racial
equality, as that depends somewhat
on the settlement they are able to
secure concerning kiao Chau. The
Belgian amendment relates TO the
choice Of Geneva as the seat of the
league, and this also is in the way
of adjustment.
ina ~
Is not expected to encounter oppo-
sition if the question of French Sc
curity is adjusted.
The word external in article 10,
according to the analysis shows that
the league cannot be used like the
Holy Alliance to suppress national
or other movements within the
boundaries of member states, but
only to prevent forcible annexation
from without.
Article 10. II and 10 are cited
as making plain that the covenant
Is not intended to make the new
territorial settlement in Europe un-
alterable for all time, but, on the
contrary. to provide the machinery
Tor the progressive regulation of in
ternational affairs of the future.
Washington. April 2S The re-
yised covenant of the League of Ma
tions. as it will be presented at
Paris to-day to the Peace Confer
rnce in plenary session, includes i'm
portant amendments designed to
meet criticisms in the United states
of the original draft.
81 States Named
attached to the text. however, is
the hitherto unpublished annex re-
ferred to in the covenant, in which
are named the thirty-one states. in
cIudin- the governing British
dominions, which are to be the ori-
-.nal members of the League of Ma
tons. and thirteen states to he in
yited to accede to the covenant. The
original members are all the nations
which declared war on Germany, and
in addition the new states of Czecho-
SloVakia and Poland. Those invited
TO become members by aCceding to
the covenant are the three Scandi-
uaNian countries. the Netherlands,
Switzerland. Spain and Persia. and
the American republics of Argentine,
chile. Colombia. Paraguay. Salvador
and Venezuela.
Mexico l. out
Mexico was not represented in the
conference of ueutrals at Paris, and,
as was expected, does not appear in
the list.
Publication of the text discloses
that the official summary quoted
verbatim the new article recognize
ing the Monroe doctrine. 1t pro-
yides that nothing in the covenant
shall he deemed Ito affect the valid
ity of international engagements
such as treaties of arbitration or
regional understandings like the
Monroe doctrine for securing the
maintenance of peace" This was
the amendment for which President
Wilson made a successful fight at the
same time the Japanese delegation
to the Peace Conference sought
Vainly to have a race equality pro-
Vision inserted in the covenant.