The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-11
Data Asked From All Parts
of World in Order Is
sued by League.
BIG SURPRISE IN PARIS
Principles of Pact Put Into
Effect Before Signatures
Are Obtained.
OLD EDICTS ARE IGNORED
Hungarian Army Continues to
Advance Despite Warning
by Council.
OLD EDICTS ARE IGNORED
BY LAURENCE HILLS.
Std6 Correspondent OF The sux.

N~''NefS'eNc"t
Copyright 1879; all rights reserred.
PARIS, June 10.-Nothing could EN-.
phasize better the remarkable en-.
thuslasm, or as some diplomats here
term 1t fanaticism, of Col. T.. NJ.
House and Lord Robert Cecil. the two
leading promoters of the League of
Nations, than the action taken YES.
terday by the meeting held in the
Hotel Crillon in issuing the first com.
munlque of the league and in putting
out other recommendations as if the
league were actually functioning.
Notwithstanding that the treaty has
not yet been signed by Germany and
that participation by the United
States as member Is dependent en-.
tirely ON approval by the American
Senate, which like all other allied
parliaments has vet to receive Off.
cially the text of the treaty containing
the covenant OF the League of Ma
tions, resolution passed by the meet
ing at the Crillon calls for informa.
tion at the earliest possible moment
of all political, financial, social. eco.
nomic and other relevant considera.
tions In all parts Of the world"
In the opinion of many here. this
resolution fitly expresses the House
Cecil conception Of the league. 1t
was prepared Jointly by them and
received merely perfunctory assent
from Messrs. Pichon, Chlnda and the
other Old World diplomats, who give
the appearance of sitting in merely
to watch Lord Robert and Col House.
as men Of the hard school of experi.
ence would watch some ATTEMPT in
alchemy.
Unexpected by Old Diplomats.
1t is doubtful If these men ex.
pected Col. House and Lord Robert
10 go as far as they did in publishing
the fact that they were proceeding
on the assumption that the league
was going concern, for until this
time publicity regarding the league
organization rather was frowned
upon, particularly in American cir
cles. The reason given for this was
that 1t might have a bad effect in
America. which had not yet approved
the covenant.
The dispatches of THE SUN, how.
ever, already have indicated the work
that Lord Robert and Col House
were doing quietly toward actually
starting the league. In many quar-.
ters there Is a disposition to see in
yesterdays action, which plainly
caused surprise, purpose to intiu-
ence the situation In the United
States.
The tactics of Col. House appar.
emily have changed and he seems TO
be trying now to show the Senate
and the American people that they
hardly can stay out of league that
already is functioning. If this ID
really his design many in American
circles believe that 1t might have the
opposite effect. Participation by the
United States in the person of Col.
House, 1t was conceded, might cause
further resentment in the Senate,
where everything depends upon how
the situation Is handled now.
Furthermore, 1t was feared that II
might accentuate the wide embracing
scope of the leagues activities, as
conceived by It's chief founders. and
create fear that the league might
be unduly meddlesome. The position
taken by Col. House and Lord Robert
Cecil is that they were authorized by
the Peace Conference to go ahead
when 1t gave it's silent approval 10
the Wilson resolution appointing an
organization committee at the time the
covenant was approved. On this as.
sumption they purpose working all
summer, even though the Parlaments
do not ratify the league and it actu.
ally has no members.
Open Defiance of the League.
81 NouIu ne mistake 10 assume
that there is widespread enthusiasm
here for the league as created by the
present covenant. In place of the
confidence which one might expect in
the principles of the league, already
there is open defiance of them in
many parts Of Europe. In effect tho
Council Of Four virtually is acting az
the council Of the league will net and
is attempting to put into practice the