The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-09-25
RY WORKING IN CONCERT THE
ALLIES WON THE WAR;
BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PEACE MAY BE KEPT,
SAYS C.. G. DAWES.

Charles G. Dawes Controller OF
the Currency under President NC
Kinley, and recently brigadier gen
eral under General Pershing, who
returned to the United States
month ago after two years, service
urging the adoption of the League
ca can, 4> Mr. dawes comes back from
Europe to find himself in disagree
ment with some Of his party's
leaders in Congress.
The quick and decisive. results
obtained by the Allies after the
and the pooling of their material
resources, Mr.. Dawes says, represent
ed the value of combination, in the
task of winning the war. This was
sort of League of Nations with
out which the conflict gould not
have been ended as. 1t was. Inc
same joint action Of the nations, Mr..
Dawes believes, will be eftectual IN
preventing war.
Each Of the Allies made conces-
sons of authority, contributed from
it's food materials and ammunition
to the common cause. This collabor-
alton and combination, Mr. Dawes
points out, was in way sacrifice
by the Allies of individual national
initiative and control with the object
of saving themselves from a defeat
that would have deprived them by
force of vastly more than they gave
voluntarily to preserve their re-
spective sovereignites.
The military board which gov
erned the supplies Of the Allied
armies was in effect a League Of
Nations. Mr.. Dawes says.
GAS in the case of the League OF
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without unanimous consent. and as
with the League of Nations, the
bitter opponents of it's creation pre-
dicted that it would, not be effective
or useful Mr.. Dawes says.
"What happened in creating this
board is exactly what is happening
in the effort to create the League of
Nations" he continues.
o THE proposition for the cesslon.
Of the Independent sovereignites of
the armies and the governments,
fortified though it was by ire
mendous military necessity was re-
jected as has been the case with
the League Of Nations.
But because of the necessity for
finding some remedy for the de-
plorable lack of coordination OF
out interfering from first to last
with the Independent sovereign
power Of each army over its rear,
the board was established to con-
troll them which. like the League of
Nations, could do nothing effective
without unanimous consent.
Thus the effort made to more
peace of the world. by having a
cession of the independent sovereign
power Of each nation made to the
council of the League of Nations.
failed in the peace conference. But
realizing their duty to humanity in
the general cause of peace, the MEM
bers of the peace conference, having
protected the independent sovereign
rights of the nations by the I'M
plan in the League of Nations by
which as in our military board Of
allied supply, opportunities for COM
mon information and common con-
sideration would enable SEPARATE
sovereignites to work together Of
their own free will in a practical and
continuous way for the betterment of
the world.
''In the opposition to the peace
treaty and the League of Nations in
this country | hear too little discus
sion of alternatives to their adoption;
but the longer the discussion con-
tinues the surer will alternatives
come to be considered. When alter
natives are thus considered I have
faith that the honest judgment of
the American people will be forced
to the same conclusion as was that
of the representatives of all govern
ments signing the treaty, to-wit:
That since it was imDossible for anv
one of them to have in the treaty all
they would desire. they would accent
the. best treaty possible to be made
therefore look forward to an wifi
mate rally of American public sem
timent behind it, faulty as il nav
seem TO US in certain details. as
embodying the hope Of a better