The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-04-28
COVENANT LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
Which Consists of 81 States
Including Self Governing
British Dominions.
EACH STATE ONE VOTE

Washington, April 20 (Monday).
The revised covenant of the
League of Nations, as it will be pre-
|sented at Paris tomorrow to the
peace conference in plenary session,
was made public tonight by the
State Department. It's essential fea-
lures, including important amend
ments designed to meet criticisms in
the United States of the original
draft, already had been disclosed
through an official summary issued
two weeks ago when the revision
was completed.
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the hitherto unpublished "annex" re-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
Guiding the self-governing British
dominions which are to be the orig
inal members of the League of Ma
tions, and thirteen nations to be in
yited to accede to the covenant. The
original members are all the nations
which declared war on Germany and
in addition the states of Czechoslo-
vakia and Poland. Those invited to
become members by acceding to the
| covenant are the three Scandinavian
countries, the Netherlands, Switzer-
land, Spain and Persia, and the
American republic of Argentina.
Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Salvador
and Venezuela.
Mexico was not represented in the
conference of neutrals at Paris and
as was expected, does not appear in
the list. Provision is made in the
covenant, however, for the admission
/ to the league of any fully self gov
erning country which will give re-
quired guarantees upon two thirds
vote of the assembly, composed of
representatives of the member ma
tions.
/ AS in the original document, the
covenant provides that the league
shall act through an assembly in
which each State shall have one vote
and not more than three delegates,
and council, comprising for the
present one representative of each
CT the five great powers and each
of four other powers to be selected
from time to time by the assem- bly,.
Members. of each class represented on
the council may be increased by
Unanimous consent of the council
and majority of the assembly
Publication of the text discloses
that the official summary quoted
verbatim the new article recognizing
the Monroe Doctrine. It provides
that nothing in the covenant shall be
deemed '.to affect the validity of in
IternationaI engagements, such as
treaties of arbitration or regional un-
i derstandings like the Monroe Doc
trine 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
i race equality provision Inserted in
the covenant.
U
the United States Senate add pro-
visions for the withdrawal of a mem
Der nation upon two years notice
after fn1fillment of the league obli-
cations exempt domestic questions
from the leagues Jurisdiction, pro-
vide that mandatories over German
/ colonies or former Ottoman domin-
ions shall be given only to nations
willing to accept them, leave it to
member states to decide what armed
force, if any, it win contribute to the
force required by the league to en-
force its mandates, and make it clear
| that member states individually will
pass upon proposed limitations upon
their armament.
With notifications, the new draft
includes all the provisions for the
submission to the council of inter
national disputes. for inviting non
member nations to accept the obliga-