The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-01-03
CONGRESS
ASSEMBLIES SOON
LIST OF PARTICIPANT TO BE RE-
sTRIcTED AT BEGINNING
OF CONFERENCES
MAY START IN THREE WEEKS
Neutral Powers Will Be Allowed to
Participate When Stage Is Reach
ed Where Worldwide Adoption
of Plans Is Necessary

Paris. Dec. 2G-More than three
weeks probably will elapse before the
general peace conference assemblies.
1t is unlikely that any official state
ment will be issued in the meantime
concerning the number of governments
to be represented or the tests to be
applied to determine the right of APP
plicants TO participate.
Technical experts attached to the
delegations of the principal powers al
ready have given much study to this
subject. If negotiations to reach an
agreement on this point have not been
undertaken already it is certain they
will be Immediately after President
Wilson's return from London.
Notwithstanding the indisposition of
the British government to inject bust
ness into Mr.. Wilson's visit, it Is pos
sible that in his conferences with
Premier Lloyd George and Foreign
Minister Balfour the foundation may
be laid for settlement Of the question
of representation which Mr.. Wilson
probably has discussed with Premier
Clemenceau
Modus Operandi.
Conditions which will confront the
peace conference when it opens will
not be unlike those marking the open
ing of II new congress in the United
States or national convention. In
the first, the house clerk determines
the tentative membership and in the
second the committee on credentials
prepares a tentative list of delegates.
At the peace conference delegats must
be prepared TO present adequate ere
dentials from their legislature, king,
president, or other executive authority.
Ii Is considered probable that sew
eral countries on the tentative list will
be closely restricted Mt the beginning
when broad questions of policy will
be outlined. But additions to the list
of delegates may be made later when
the conference gets down to details
and general principles. Still later an
other class of nations may be admitted,
including the central powers, to lay
SlSHlI1H
OF peace treaties.
To Consider NeutraIs.
Theoretically these questions are
subject to mutual examination and
challenge in case of doubt but actually
in the Forthcoming conference, the
United States, Great Britain, France,
Italy and later, perhaps. Belgium, by
reason of sentimental considerations
probably will reach an understanding
as to the admission of delegates.
The neutral powers proDaniy will be
allowed to participate when the stage
Is reached where it is desirable there
should be worldwide adoption of the
plans prepared ut the preliminary SEES
sions for the permanent settlement of
war issues and the assurance of per.
manent peace.
There already are indications that
there will be applications for numer-
Gus small states, some of them exist.
Ing before the war and others result.
ing from the collapse Of Russia and
''N "'''i"h Va .Nuelliu uHu turkey
In this category are the ZioniSts OF
Palestine, Arabs. Armenians, Georgians
and small governments in Mesopo.
| tamia which the British and French
governments already have promised
recognition or protection.
The Czecho. Slovak republic already
has been recognized by most Of the
nations of the entente and by the
United States-Serbia. Finland and
Ukraine, Esthonia and numerous othe,
fragments of Russia are seeking rec
ognition.