The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-28
FINAL ACTION ON
COVENANT MAY
BE HAD TO-DAY
Revised Draft Made After
Consultation With Thir-
teen Neutral Nations.
TO BE NO SUPERSTATE
Monroe Doctrine Amendment
Is Not Expected to EncOun-
ter Opposition.
By TIE Aasocioted Press.

PARIS, April 21.-The revised cove
nant Of the League Of Nations will
20 before a plenary session of the
Peace Conference tomorrow for final
action. What is In store for Il there
Is not yet clear, as negotiations have
been active in the last few days with
a view to adjusting the reservations
made by the French, japanese and
Belgians when the committee adopted
the revised text
The French amendments were de-
signed TO reinforce French military
security, but these may not be pressed
owing 10 the military security which
France obtains under the settlement
of the Rhine frontier.
The japanese delegation have not
yet indicated whether they will re-
iiew their amendment on racial equal.
ity. as that depends somewhat on the
settlement they are able to secure con.
cerDing Kiao-chau. The Belgian
amendment relates to the choice OF
Geneva as the seat OF the league. and
this also is in the way OF adjustment.
Premier Hughes's AttItude.
The Monroe Doctrine amendment j.,
not expected to encounter opposition
IL the question OF French security Is
adjusted. Premier Hughes OF Austria
lia previously has indicated his pur-
pose of discussing the covenant as Il
| whole, and he also will be the chief
opponent of the japanese amendment
! IL 1t Is renewed.
A semi-offlcial analysis OF the re-
vised covenant says that the redraft
| was made after consultation with
| thirteen neutral nations, and examina-
ton. the criticisms coming from both
sides OF the Atlantic. The resulting
document, it is declared. does not
| create a superstate. The league must
depend upon the free consent of its
! component states.
The word external" in Article X,
according TO the analysis. shows that
the league cannot be used like the
Holy Alliance TO suppress national or
other movements within the boun-
daries of member states, but only to
prevent forcible annexation from
| without.
Machinery for Regulation.
Articles 10, IL and 10 are cited as
making plain that the covenant is not
intended to make the new territorial
settlement in Europe unalterable for
all time, but, on the contrary, TO pro-
vide the machinery for the progressive
regulation of international affairs OF
the future
Many OF the quarrels OF the past ="
the statement adds. "arose from the
absence OF this machinery so that the
covenant may be said to inaugurate a
new international order and thereby
eliminate, so far as possible, one OF the
principle causes OF war"
The Temps to-day says that two or
| three days will suffice for the Council
| o! Three 10 approve clauses in the treaty
OF peace that still remain to be thorough
/ ~ clarified. The newspaper adds that
the committee entrusted with the pre-
paration OF the programme concerning
Alsace-Lorraine has achieved a definite
draft in which all the claims OF France
are admitted.
La Lberte says Capt. Andre Tardieu
has been invited to prepare the outline
OF the text of the peace treaty which
is TO be handed to the German plenipo-
tentiaries and that this fact indicates
that the Italians indorsed all the essen
tial clauses OF the treaty before they left
Paris