Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-02-20
President Wilson Bringing Back.
Completed Draft Of League
Of Nations Plan.
sEvERER ARMIs1ICE TERMS.
Arrogant Huns to eeMade to Realize
They Were Whtpped--Ebert Elected
President Of the German Re
public Revolt Against the
King Of Royh,ania.
BY EDWARD W. PIckARp.

President Wilson is bringing home
with him the virtually complete draft
of the constitution aof the. League of
Nations that is to- allay If not to end
most of the. worlsi,s Ills. Despite,
|sslilagkaii 0Iposit ION Id setne quarters.
F Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Lloyd George.
earnestly supported by the smaller ma
tiOns, were able to have presented a
document that met with the approval
Sof the commission Of the league, and
this was then presented to the plenary
session of the peace conference. with
every prospect that 1t would be adopt.
ed.
AS 1t stands, the plan provides for
small body of Representatives Of all
the nations concerned, which shall
meet every. few months In place to
be internationallzed. Every difference
between nations is to be submitted to
this governing body and to be decided
within three months, during which
time the contending parties must re-
frain from acts of hostility. II the
decision is not accepted, the case will
be. submitted to arbitrators. and If the
country they place in the wrong does
not accept the ruling and has recourse
to arms, all other nations in posi-
ton to do SO will take up arms against
1T. No country is obliged to go to war
with the offending nation, but all must
join in an economic boycott Of the lat.
ter.
France, which, since the outbreak OF
the great war, justly considers herself
an outpost nation guarding frontier
of civilization, strongly urged the crea-
tion of an immediate international
army and navy to enforce the rulings
OF the society of nations. Leon Bour-
ge0is argued earnestly for the con
stitution Ofisuch a force and for the
placing of it in France until all danger
Of an attack by Germany was at an
end. This was opposed, especially by
American and British representatives,
who showed that it was contrary to the
constitutions Of their countries. The
long. discussion ended in ain agreement
that If a country should be attacked,
in violation Of the rules of the league.
the attacked country would employ
her military forces as covering
troops" and await aid from those 9th
er nations that could most easily give
1t.
1t is scarcely conceivable that this
solution of the question can be satis-
factory to France. The great war.
demonstrated that in sudden shock
attack "a. a.nation can suffer Immense
| damage before her allies can mobilize
their forces and transport them to the
scene Of conflict, This is. Just what
France fears will happen. agaifsWIth
Germany again as the aggressor, and
her alarm, though 1t may be as fool
ish as some correspondents think 1t,
will not be allayed until or unless the
allies render the Huns militarily i'm
| potent before the treaty of peace is
signed. There Is a growing feeling in
Paris that the American and British
delegates are disposed to be too leni-
ent with Germany and too prone to
adopt the insidious claim Of the Ger
N1ns themselves that their former rul-
Eers and not the people were responsl.
BILE for the war and It's horrors. The
French reassert the well-known TACT
that the German people as whole ar
Identity supported their government In
the conduct Of the war and gave apr
proyal to the optrages committed by
Officers and soldiers alike.
&
Having adopted constitution and
elected Friedrich Ebert as president OF