Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-21
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tions is in any true sense created by
the association of only three of the
| Allied and associated Governments.
\ In reply to your sixth question. I
| can only express the confident opin-
ion that the immediate adoption of
the Treaty, along with the articles
OF the covenant of the League as
written would certainly within the
| near future reduce the cost of liv-
/ ing in this country as elsewhere, by
restoring production and commerce
to their normal strength and free
dom.
For your convenience, I will num-
Der the remaining paragraphs of this
letter as the questions to which they
are intended to reply are numbered.
Seven - l have had no official in
formation as to whether Norway,
sweden, Denmark, Holland. or
switzerland will join the League.
Eight = l answered your eighth
question in reply to a question asked
me at our conference, the other day.
! (This is in regard to licensing OF
exports to Germany
Nine - In February, 1917, Spain
was requested to take charge of
American interests in Germany
through her diplomatic and con-
sular representatives and no other
arrangement has since been made.
League Committee Named
Ten - The committee to prepare
plans for the organization of the
League. for the establishment of the
sea of the League, and for the pro-
ceedings of the first meeting of the
Assembly, has been appointed, but
has not reported.
Eleven - Article 11S of the Peace
Treaty, part ~, under which Ger
many renounces all her rights to
territory formerly belonging to her
self or to her Allies was understood,
so far as special provision was not
made in the Treaty itself for it's dis
position, as constituting the princi-
pal Allied and associated powers the
authorities by which such disposition
should ultimately be determined. II
conveys no title to those powers, but
merely entrusts the disposition of the
territory in question to theirIdecision
Invested With Trusteeship
Twelve - Germany's renunciatior
in favor of the principal Allied and
associated powers of her rights and
titles to her overseas possessions is
meant similarly to operate as vest
ing in those powers a trusteeshiI
with respect of their full disposition
ana government.
Thirteen - There has been a pro-
Visional agreement as to the dis.
position of these overseas posses.
sions whose confirmation and execu.
ton is dependent upon the approva
of the League of Nations, and the
United States as q party to tha
provisional agreement.
ETanco-British Pact
Fourteen The only agreement
between France and Great Britain
with regard to African territory, Of
which 1 am cogniZant, concerns the
redisposition of all rights already
possessed by those countries on tina
continent. The provisional agree
ment referred to in the preceding
paragraph covers all the German
overseas possessions in Africa al
we'll as elsewhere.
Fifteen - No mention was made
in connection with the settlement o.
the Saar basin of the service of ar
American member of the commission
of five to be set up there.
U. S. Represented
Sixteen - 1t was deemed wise tha
the United States should be repre-
sented by one member of the com
mission for settling the new from
tier lines of Belgium and Germany
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that Americas representative woulc
add to the commission a useful ele
ment of entirely disinterested judg
ment.
Seventeen The choice of tn,
commission for the Saar basin wa,
left to the Council of the League o.
Nations, because the Saar basin i.
for fifteen years to be directly un.
der the care and direction of the
League of Nations.
Eighteen - Article 83 does In eff
feet provide that five of the mem
bers of the commission of seven tC
fix the boundaries between POLAND
and Czecho -Slovakia should be nom
mated by certain countries, because
there are five principal Allied anC
associated powers, and the nomina
tion of five representatives by those
powers necessarily means the nom
ination of one representative by
each of those powers.
Nineteen - No such commission
has yet been appointed. (The com
mission referred to is that for tn,
fixing OF the Polish boundaries.)
Twenty - 1t was deemed wise tina
the United States should have
representative on the commission
set up to exercise authority over tn,
plebescite of upper Slesia, for tn,
same reason that I have given will
regard to the commission for set
tling the frontier line of Belgiur
and Germany.