Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-04-18
STATE MAY WITHDRAW, PROVlD-
ED KEEPS OBLIGATIONS,
ON YEARS NOTICE.
OUR MONROE DOCTRINE SAFE
Sections Relating to Disarmament and
Manufactures Aitered-Each State
Has One Vote-Officiai Sum-
mary of Document.

nations was issued Saturday by the
peace conference
One-The league of nations is
founded in order to promote inter
national cooperation and to secure
peace. The league will include:
(a) The beligerent states named
in document annexed to the coven-
ant.
CO All the neutral states so named.
(c) In the future all self-govern-
ing country whose admission is APP
proved by two-thirds of the states al
ready members of the league.
A state may withdraw from the
league, providing it has kept it's obi
cations to date, on giving two years
notice
Two-The league will act through
an assembly comprising not more
than three representatives OF each OF
the member states, each state. hav
ing only one vote, and council COM
prising for the present one represen-
tative of each of the five great powers
and each of four other powers as
selected from time to time by the
assembly
The number of powers OF each
class represented on the council may
be increased by the unanimous con-
sent of the council and majority of
the assembly. Other powers have the
right to sit as members of the coun-
Gil during the decision of matters in
which they are especially interested
In the council as in the assembly
each state will have only one vote.
Both these bodies are to meet at
stated intervals (the council at least
once year, and at other times il
required; both can deal with any mat
ter that is of international interest or
that threatens the peace of the world;
the decision of both must be unani-
nous except in certain specified cases,
matters of procedure. for instance, be-
ing decided by majority vote.
The league will have a permanent
secretariat, under a secretary general.
The secretariat and all other bodies
under the league may include women,
of international justice and various
permanent commissions and bureaus
are also to be established.
Three-The member states agree:
(a) To reduce their ornaments,
plans for such reduction being sug-
gested by the council, but only adopt
ed with the consent of the states
themselves, and thereafter not to in
crease them without the concurrence
of the council.
OBJ To exchange full information
of their existing armies and their
naval and military programs.
(c) To respect each others ter
ritory and personal Independence, and
to guarantee them against foreign
aggressions.
I'D To submit all international dis
putes either to arbitration or to in
quiry by the council, which latter,
however, may not pronounce an opn-
ion on any dispute whose subject mat
ter falls solely within states domes-
tic jurisdiction; in no case to go to
war til three months after an award
or an unanimous recommendation has
been made, and even then not to go
to war with a state which accepts the
award or recommendation.
(e) To regard state which has
broken the covenant as having com
mitted an act OF war against the
league, to break off all economic and
other relations with it, and to allow
free passage through their territories
to the troops OF those states which
are contributing armed force on be.
half of the league. The council is to
recommend what amount of force, if
any, should be supplied by the several
governments concerned, but the ap.
proval of the latter is necessary.
Estates not members of the league
will be invited to accept the obliga
tions of the league for the purpose OF
particular disputes, and if they fail
to comply may be forced
(f) Not to consider any treaty
binding till it has been communicated
to the league, which will then pro
coed to publish it, to admit the right
sideration of treaties and information
al conditions which do not accord
with present needs, and to be bound
by no obligations inconsistent with
the covenant.
"A state which breaks its agree
ments may be expelled from the
league by the council.
Four-The covenant does not af
feet the validity of international en-
gagements, such as treaties of arbi
tration or regional understandings
like the Monroe doctrine, for securing
the maintenance OF peace.
Fiye-The former German colonies
and the territories of the Ottoman
empire are to be administered in the
interests of civilization by states