Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-20
UNITY OUTLINES
OF WORLD UNION
Wilson Holds Conference
With Entente Authorities
on Nations League
NO SUPER.SOVEREICNTY
Only % Days of Visit Remains
to President to Har-
monize Allies
NO SUPER.SOVEREICNTY
By the Associated Press

,s .ba Surname rouncil resumed
eittines today. marked progress was be-
ing made in the business Of comparing
various plans for the formation Of a
league of nations and harmonizing
them into a unity of ideas which can
be taken up as a concrete proposition
Nucb heaawav in this direction was
,,,da ,as, night at the conference at
,ho Nurat residence which was attended
M, AIR Wilson Lord Robert Cecil, the
p,,,i.h ranrasentative charged with
working out of n plan for a league OF ma
tions. Leon Bourgeois. the French
nrononent of a plan for ouch an organ
izatiop and General Jan Christian
Sn,,,,s who has formulated a plan for a
league.
p,otir,i,,ar, oorversattons oyer the
.,,,,o.,,n. % ,,a ioaguo ~ natiops are
,,..,ti,.,s,aai,i,g etilI e., tho stage of he.
~. siso, ,,psad In ,oeetir,s of tho Sunrcme
rp,,uoj, ,rd are not technicaIlv before
~, - S.,sros. as , ,,boIe but the
,ao, 49, enc Congress- had advanced
Iact ma t'0 re ssa., ,1laoa IN
inns question: 10 lhe ioie,lo pa' -
us program is taNeIi " i''u''ase e,,n
progress Is peins iiiaue u, '"e oupl ~
Councll as 10 warrant 'no :,
that dennlte ana soInewnat oe'a''eu
program VIII soon De evolved
Wil HarmOuiIa Aims
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ms pios,s, .Aus. 80 ~ ia.dare
se". '"1 ,.a S,atas 60, pr;,oin ond
y. pi, ,ne ia ,hsreforc MAJ, fnrnisb a
starting point from which all the peace
delegates may participate IN the work.
President wilson ls personally pressing
forward this one feature OF the WORK OIL
the Peace Congress 10 the virtual eN-
with definite pan lotIneu ioi e@teo'- @
ing structure upon wn'ea an e''o
can agree. there are aoout '"enH
WORKING DAYS rei,,aIii"s VI nu
that fres'ueht ot .aro,a -,
himselt ior "o'n III 'i peis, s,,sa
iifs 70, noe. 80 ~ ,bts co,nnarativeIv
IL "hetnet II" -. a., ,iona tooa,bar
sI'0I -, -, Co.. , socio,v of nations
u, as ~ pnuaIaar,,a cIosoa. adyis.
-n'"s Va ,,,,r,. 49, son,.i,,aa he con do
ere ar - thsir oninion n, ,chst
'',,,ar 20 bo snontaneous deyeIopments
"r pe%nressions. indicating adherence TO
tho league plan by Great Britain. France
and italy and OH the assumption that.
being virtually agreed upon IN principle
and indeed as to some details, the re-
mainder of the work. WINE presenting
some perpleHities. does not oller hopeless
obstacles If approached III SPIRIT OF
accommodation ana even sacr'liG W,''rh
NirtuanE an ,,io hoirar cite
,o.oosor,, to n satisfactory result,
,, n,.. ur p,.,
''''"' o"'
With discussions now past 'he polhl
wheIa it seems to he agreed there snail
he no supersoHereisnty. nor common
police force md that the question oi
whether a nation shall contribute force
in carrying out the decisions or the
league will be left to each nation indi-
vidually in each instance. the general
plan being most talked about embodies
an enlargement of the principles con.
tanned in the treaties negotiated by vii.
liam jennings Bryan
heSe ProN'ue ior ue'iS ol year
before declaring war ana lhNes'ieauoh'
pN specal coiI''issIo" Va AL u.sputeS
ana that no declaration OF war snail DC
made thereafter Without giving certain
notice. Such "A plan' current discus
sion in Paris brings out, is intended by
those who favor II TO virtually establish
a concert OF power among the principa
nations for a preservation of worlt
, peace. This would be extended 10 wha
would be virtually a guardianship of tn,
smaller nations, applying to them III,
principles which govern participation il
the league by their greater sister.
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BY this plan 1t is apparently purposed
to internationalize the guardianship OF
smaller nations with the idea that there
shall be no domination over them BY
one nation economically or financially
1t is proper to state at this juncturt
that President Wilson himself has 9
reasonably complete plan for the forma
ton of the league of nations. Il ma,
also be stated that he highly regard.
many features of the plan presented b,
General SHUTS and is working in clos.