The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-20
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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though it is intimated that "the wishes
of these communities must be prin-
cipal consideration in the selection of
the mandatory power" 1t might be
ungracious to refuse such an invita-
ton, say from Armenia or Syria, but
the United States is not bound so to
do by the terms of the league (Art.
XIX. r...
4. All the members share in the
leagues bureau of labor with its ex-
pected solution of important interna-
tional problems.
60 Freedom of transit and equita-
Bile treatment" Cart. XXI are assured
/! throughout the league.
(6) Existing international bureaus
are to be brought together under the
league Cart. XXID; this is a general
service and convenience.
ca Every treaty and international
engagement" is to be made public
a decided advantage to the United
States, which makes no secret treat
les.
(8) Treaties inconsistent with the
present covenant are abrogated. This
relieves the world, apparently, from
the secret Russian, French, British
and Italian treaties made during the
war for the people of other peoples
territory and population. Whether it
would apply also to treaties for pro-
tectorates which were not congenial
to the protected powers is a question.
bean are affected, so are the numer-
GUS protective treaties of Great Brit
ain and France all over the world.
Presumably those agreements are not
superseded by the league Cart XIV.
(9) Members of the league are pro-
tected from unwelcome engagements
by the two-thirds rule art VID, and
from unwelcome amendments by the
unanimous rule in the executive coun-
Gil anu Lu0 CHlcc-tou4 tlAo IuIc III luV,
body of delegates,
Immediate Bearing Of League
The greatest privilege of the United
States and of mankind through the
league is the acceptance of the prin-
ciple that weak powers are not only
entitled to the sympathy shut to the
attacked by a superior enemy On,
the other hand, great powers are re-
lieved from the danger of conflagra-
lions which begin in apparently petty
controversies between little powers.
The world is now closely tied together
by immigration, by travel, by COM
merce, by world business organiza-
lions, so that there is no longer any
such thing as small and insignificant
war. The most highly civilized, rich
est and most prosperous nations of
the world have most to lose by war
and most to gain by world peace.
The league document is presage
Of the peace which Is to end the pres
ent war. The breakup of Austria
Hungary and Turkey is distinctly rec
ognized, and the creation of new states
IN central Europe, the number Of which
is bound to increase when the status
of Finland, the Baltic provinces, and
the Ukraine are settled. Independence
Of Armenia and Syria and extensions
of Greece are practically promised.
The Gefmans lose all their colonies,
and one object of the plan is so to
crystalline the world that these colo
MES will never 60 back Japan gets the
northern Pacific islands. Australia the
and British South Africa
the adjacent German Southwest Al
RIGA.
A good part of the organization is
Intended to prevent the resurrection of
nilitarism in Germany It will have
20 be much chastened and subdued
Germany that finally gets place In
league of nations; and when once III
here, the apparatus of arbitration, in
luriy, summons of troops and so on, =
s intended to make impossible the
Jumping OF vast army into an un-
war, the devastation of small