The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-10
Three Tentative Proposals for
Forming League of Nations
Under Considerat on.
PRESIDENT IS IN PARIS
Smuts Each Have Drawn Plans
and So Has Leon Bour.
geois of France.

Paris, Jan. 9.-American, Brit
ish, Italian and French statesmen
will have their first joint meeting
Thursday, it is officially an
nounced.
The conference, which will be in
the foreign office, will be attended
by President Wilson, Secretary
Robert Lansing, Foreign Minister
A. J. BaIfour, Lord Cecil, Premier
Orlando, Foreign Minister Son.
nino, Premier CIemenceau and
Foreign Minister Pichon.
Paris, Jan. 9.-With President Will
son again in Paris, the arrival OF
Lord Cecil, special delegate of Great
Britain on the league of nations, and
the presence here of Leon Bourgeois,
French representative on the same
subject, exchanges on the definite
terms by which the league is to be
constituted are under way.
Already considerable progress has
been made on the various tentative
proposals put forward, but in the re-
l.
have not taken definite form, as it is
recognized that he personally will take
leading part in the final formulation
of the plan. Meanwhile the various
governments chiefly interested are
presenting outlines in quite definite
form
Two British Plans offered.
Two British plans of this tentative
nature have been presented, one by
Lord Robert Cecil, the other by Lieu
tenant General ]. c.. Smuts of the war
cabinet The French plan. as formu-
lated by Nj. Bourgeois, also has been
set forth and these are being COM
pared by the American specialists,
who are preparing the groundwork for
President Wilson
Lord Robert Cecil's plan outlines a
broad and comprehensive organization
of the league of nations but thus far
ii is in general terms and has not yet
been reduced to the definite terms oi
enactment as it would appear in. the
treaty.
General Smuts' plan is along sim
liar lines but more general, and is
mainly thesis on the advantages OF
such a league of nations. General
Smuts is the former minister of de
fense of the Union of South Africa and
will come here with the British prime
minister, David Lloyd George.
Plans Carefully Studied.
Both of these plans are receiving
careful study by the American auth
critics and it is declared, both are re
garded in most favorable light
though it still remains to reduce Tho
general principles to concrete terms
M. Bourgeois plan embodying the
French point of view, while general
also embraces number of specific de
tails. including compulsory arbitration
restriction of excessive armament, al
international tribunal, and series o
sanctions or penalties for enforcins
observances of the leagues decision
These sanctions include various diplo
matte and economic measures, where
by the united nations may enforc,
their DEGREES.
The American viewpoint as it ii
now being formulated by the special
lists, as the ground work for the Presi
dent, seems to reach an accord OF
fundamentals on which all agree an,
present them in simple working form
One of the chief of these fundamen
tails is the formation of league whicl
will embrace all the nations of tn
world, but not one which will estat
lish any balance of power among
group Of nations.