The evening world., 1919-01-20
RUSSIA TAKEN Up
AT BRIEF SESSION
OF PEACE COUNCIL
continued from Firs. rlE.)

cirn Secretary, was accompanied 10
the meeting 10y Lord Robert Cecil, who
was especially in charge of tho subject
Of n League OF Nations. on behalf of
Great Britain. Baron Nobuaki Max
inc, Chief OF the Japanese Mission. at
tended the council for the first time,
representing Japan together with
Baron Matsui, the Ambassador to
France.
Lord Robert Cecil remained at the
Foreign Once. where the meeting was
held, for only a few moments. and
did not enter the council chamber,
where the session to-day was an ex-
ecutive one.
Tho Council as II met to-day COM
priscd ten members-two from each
Of the five great Powcrs-President
Wilson and Secretary Of state Lam
sing representing the United States.
Tho three additional members from
each Power did not attend as full
meetings Of the membership OF
twenty-five are only assembled when
subjects OF especial importance are
under consideration by the Council. .
Tho decision that the League OF
Nations will be outlined and organized
| by the bclligcrents alone IL under
stood to be the cause OF some dis
satisfaction among the ncutrals. who
already are informally discussing the
matter among themselves. Whether
/ any formal action will be taken by
tho ncutTals TO voice their protest is
not yet known, but among some of
them there is said to Dc n feeling
that 1t would be neither fair nor dig
nihod that they be afterwards asked
TO subscribe to covenant in whose
making they had no part.
| The neutrals, II is understood. do
not claim participation In tn" discus
sion OF peace terms because they took
no part I'm the war, but they contend
that "A League OF Nations is an in
ternationdl institution Independent ot
the war and that, therefore. no dis
tinction should be made between be-
Iligcrents and n-heligerents.
l. Is also pointed out that among
I
tries whose anti-Gernan feelings
were as strong as among the Al;i2s,
but that owing to geographical po-
si.ions and to other factors they were
forced 20 remain neutral.
Much headway toward harmonizing <
the various plans for "A league was
made last night at the conference at
the Murat residence, which was at
tended by Mr. Wilson, Lord Robert
CoCil, tho British representative
charged with working ont plan Tor
"A League Of Nations; Loon Bourgeois,
the French proponent Of plan for
such an organization, and Gen. Jan
Christian SHUTS, who has formulated
plan for league.
with discussions now past tho point
whore 1t seems 10 be agreed there
shall be no super-suNcrClgutv nor a
common police force and that the
question ~ whether nation shall
contribute force I'm carving ont tho
decisions OF the league VIII bc left "a
each nation individually lu each IN
stance, the general plan being most
talked about CnbOdiCE an enlarge
mcnt Of the principles contained M
the treaties negotiated by William
Jennings Bryan. These provide for q
delay of year before declaring wal
and investigation los Il special com,
, mission of all disputes, aud that NO
declaration OF war shall bc mad,
thereafter without giving certain
= notice.
: such o. plan, current discussion II
Paris brings out, Is intended by tno-,
who favor IL to virtually ostablIs'
a concert Of power among the pin
/ clpal nations for "a preservation o
, world peace. This would ho cNtondeD
. TO what would De virtually a guard
lauShip of the smaller nations, apply
. ing to them the principles whic'
n govern participation IN tho LOtgu
) by their greater sisters
: BY this plan it is apparently pur
posed TO intcrnatiOnalizc the guard
ianship of smaller nations. with ~
idea that there shall be no domins