The sun., 1919-07-23

shall move in and take possession they
shall conduct plebiscites which they shall
report not to the League Of Nations but
TO the principal allied and associated
Powers. and these Powers will fix the
frontier, and determine what portion OF
| the deficit in the budget shall be paid by
the inhabitants of East Prussia.
THE Limitation of ornaments has
been presented to US, Mr.. President, as
one Of the fundamental purposes of the
League of Nations, and II is natural to
suppose that such limitation as the
! treaty provides in this respect would be
confided to the wise heads and the act
i've hands of the league. Yet nowhere
in the instrument does this appear to be
the fact. Throughout the whole line of
infinitely detailed stipulations which re-
duce Germany to military impotence II
is not the soothing agency Of the League
OF Nations which essays the task. but
the strong arm of the principal allied
| and associated Powers.
! I'VE have been told that the negotia-
tors at Paris studied how best to put ill
governed colonies into the hands of Gov
ernments which are to act as trustees
! for the people and not as their masters
and that there was to be some common
authority among the nations made re-
sponsible in the execution of this trust.
This common authority can refer to none
other than our old friend, the League OF
Nations: and yet in that portion Of the
treaty which deals with the German COL
| onies the initial declaration Is that Ger
many renounces in favor OF the pr!nci-
pal allied and associated Powers and
not to the League of Nations. all her
rights and titles over her overseas pos
sessions.
League Not to Collect.
THE President has spoken to us of
the Turkish Empire, which he discloses
as having fallen apart. and his plain i'm
plication was that here again the League
OF Nations would be an Indispensable in
strumentality yet the treaty provides
that so far as Germano-Turkish rela-
tions are concerned the sums in gold and
silver had or supposed to be had in Ger
man possession with reference to the
4 Ottoman debt and other Turkish fiscal
transactions are to be paid not into the
honest hands of the League of Nations
as trustees. but TO the principal allied
and associated Powers. In like manner
sums in gold held as pledge or as collat-
eral in connection with German loans TO
the Austrian Hungarian Government,
the benefits disclosed by the treaties OF
monetary instrument, specie. securities
negotiable instruments OF goods received
under these treaties pass into the pos
session of the principal allied and asso-
ciated Powers and are to be disposed OF
in n manner which these Powers shall
hereafter determine.
II shall not dwell upon the shameful
episode OF Shantung, pausing only to
say that 1t is not to the League OF Ma
h,,t hat o.
nounces her rights. title and privileges
under the provision of the treaty.
The provisions for rendering Germany
harmless in a military sense occupy
many pages of the treaty. Mr.. Presi-
dent: and, as I have said before, II
would be natural to suppose that the
League of Nations would be the indis-
pensable fundamentally for bringing
this about-particulsrly since it ia only
with reference to Germany that any
steps have been taken toward that de-
limitation of armament which is to be
found. I assume, not in the immediate
present but somewhere beyond the spot
light which now shines on the pathway
ahead. But, here again the word OF
promise is broken to the ear and hope
alike; for il is a conference OF military
experts Of the principal allied and asso-
Ciated powers, and not the League OF
be made in the number Of German effec-
tives, and 1t is to the principal allied
and associated Powers that Germany
will report as to the limited stocks OF
munitions and guns, the armament and
the few fortified works which she will be
allowed to retain.
1T is not the League of Nations bu,
the principal allied and associated
Powers who will approve the location
Il nd
works wherein Germany will be per-
mitted TO manufacture arms, munitions
and war materials. 1t is to the prin-
cipal allied and associated Powers, not
to the League of Nations, that Germany
must surrender her surplus war mater.
ial and 1t is these Powers and not the
League of Nations who will direct the
manner in which this surrender will be
effected. And when the German Gov.
eminent shall disclose. as she must, the
nature and mode OF manufacture OF a.
explosives, toxic substances, or other
chemical preparations used by her in the
war or prepared for the purpose of be.
ing so used-is it to the League of Ma.
tions, y 1t to Sir Eric Drummond thai
these lethal formula shall be turned
over for deposit in the massive vaults
which doubtless will form part of the
equipment OF the League of Nations pa.
lace at Geneva? BY no means 1t is tn,
principal allied and associated Powers
who will take over and assimilate thi,
deadly knowledge.
Objects to Naval Terms.
THE diminution of German force.
upon the sea is likewise deemed by tn,
, treaty OF too much Importance to b,
turned over to the League Of Nations
and 1t is the principal allied and associ
ated Powers who will fix the number o.
mine sweeping vessels which German,
may maintain, to whom will be turned
over German warships now informed In
neutral ports, who will receive the emu
merated battleships which German,
must surrender, who will select the de
stroyers and torpedo boats which Ger
many must give up. who will superyis,
the breaking up of German warship,
now under construction, who will TAX,
possession of the submarines, their sal
wage vessels and docks, including tn,
tubular dock, which Germany mus
hand over: who will indicate the allied
ports to which the surrendered subma
rines must be taken, and who will super
wise the breaking up Of submarine!
under construction, the establishment o.
which Germany has promised. More
over. Mr.. President, 1t is the principa
allied and associated Powers, and no
the League of Nations, who will fix tn,
quantity of arms, munitions and wal
materials which German warships ma,
have on board who will take over tn,
surplus OF all naval war material in ex
tain. who will designate the areas IL
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