Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-11
.CE ERTA|N NATIONS
JEALOUSLy GUARD
NARMAK|NG RIGHT
With Compulsory Arbitration
Feature Eliminated, League
Must Depend Wholly on the
Force of Public Opinion.
by Herbert Bayard Swopc.
pyright, 1919. by The Press Pub
fishing Co.


(The New York World)
(Secial Gable Disatch to World and
Albuquerque Journal.)
Paris, Feb. 10,--It may be said au-
thoritatively that the feature of
compulsory arbitration as an active
principle in the constitution of the
League of Nations has been elm
mated. Expemonts looking to the
same end are in course of devel-
opment, it is true, and they prob
ably will be embodied in the plan
of operations, but at best they are
substitutes, and cannot by any
stretch of construction bring about
jurisdiction the league should have
If its character as supreme
tribunal is to be maintained.
Exclusion OF this important fea-
tme from the rules of the interna-
tional body is due to the unwilling
ness and the inability OF several of
the individual nations to yield their
Independent sovereignty and to ac-
cept processes other than their own.
A Serious Obstacle.
1t cannot be denied that the
omission raises serious obstacle
working organization. On the other
hand it must be said that even
without the rule for compulsory
arbitration, the creation of the league
is u long step beyond any the world
has ever taken TO preserve universal
peace.
Lacking the mechanical means of
compulsion which had been pro-
posed through the supreme court
Of judgment, the league will hope to
gain similar results by the force of
public opinion, or, as President Will
son said in England, "by organizing
the moral forces of the world which
shall be used to bridge over the gap
between the submission OF the ques-
tons at issue and the decision of
court, upon which coercive action
against an offender must depend.
Right to Make War.
If one or two parties to a quarrel
does not recognize the right of
court to sit in Judgment the diff
Guilty of making any but an ex parte
decree is plain. There Is substantial
in respect to the right
to make war, which will remain the
privilege of the individual nations, but
which actually will require interna-
since with declaration Of war the
worlds peace will be affected, and
that is a matter which cannot rest
with the original parties TO "A quar-
rel
The League of Nations committee is
holding day and night sessions. So the
president will be able to take back
with him something definite to pre-
sent to congress. but it is doubtful if
% complete plan can be accepted and
drafted by the time he sails
No second Voyage?
Present plans call for his departure
on the George Washington. sailing
II. 1t is almost certain he
will not go to Belgium before that
time. The statement is made tonight
by one who should know that it is
not at all certain he will return to
Paris, as he may be obliged to remain
in America too long to make another
trip here worth while. 1t may be said
almost positively also that he will not
appoint any one to act in his absence,
as the program has been changed by
which Secretary Baker was TO have
come on.
Lord Reading, the British ambas-
sador, will probably sail with the
president. After a short stay in Amer
lea, Lord Reading will return to Eng
land and resume his duties as lord
chief justice.