Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-21
MUCH PROGRESS is BEING
MADE IN THE NATIONS
LEAGUE AT PEACE TABLE

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technically before the peace congress:
as whole, but the fact that the con
gress has advanced this question L
the foremost place in its program !:
taken to indicate that such progress Is
being made in the supreme council as
to warrant the expectation that a de.
finite and somewhat detailed pro-
gram will be soon evolved. This pro-
gram will present the common
thought Of the leaders of the United
States Great Britain and France and
therefore may furnish a starting
point from which all the peace dele
gates may participate in the work
President Wilson is personally press
ing forward this one feature of the
work of the peace congress TO the
virtual exclusion of all others.
With a definite plan formed for
erecting structure upon which all
nations can agree. there are about
% working days remaining of the
time that President Wilson has allot-
ted to himself for work in France be-
fore leaving for home, The question
being asked is whether he can in this
short time bring the nations together
in an agreement for any society of
nations. Many of the presidents
closest advisers are convinced he can
do so. They base their opinion on
what appears to be spontaneous de-
velopments of expression indicating
adherence to the league plan by
Great Britain, France and Italy and
on the assumption that being virtual
ly agreed upon in principle, the re-
mainder of the work while present
ing some perplexities. does not offer
hopeless obstacles if approached in
a spirit of accommodation and even
sacrifice which virtually all leaders
have declared in their public ad-
dresses as being quite necessary to a
result
With discussions now past the point
where it seems to be agreed there
shall be no er-sovereignty nor
common police force and that the
question of whether nation shall
force in carrying out the
decisions of the league will be left to.
each nation individually in each in
stance, the general plan being most
talked about embodies an enlarge
ment Of principles contained in the
treaties negotiated by William Jen-
nings Bryan. These provide for a de-
lay of n year before declaring war
and Investigations bv 81 special COM
of all disputes and that no
declaration of war shall be made
thereafter without giving certain no.
tice. Such plan is intended by those
who favor it to virtually establish a
of power among tho princi-
pal nations for preservation of
world peace. This would he extended
to what would be virtually guard
ianship of the smaller nations, APP
plying to them the principles which
govern participation in the league by
heir greater sisters.
BY this plan, it is proposed to in
the guardianship of
smaller nations, with the idea that
there shall be no domination over
hem by one nation, economically or
1t is proper to state at
this juncture that President Wilson
himself has "A reasonably complete
plan for the formation of the league
Of nations. 1t may also be stated that
ne highly regards many features of
he plan presented by General SHUTS
md is working in close harmony with
VI. Bourgeois and Lord Robert Cecil.
Aside from the attention being paid
o the Russians. the society or nations
question is now in advantageous po-
'ition and steady development may
ne eXpccted