Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-30
LEAGUE IF NATIONS
 WAS BURN
Room 35l of Hotel Grillon.
 Workshop of American
 Commission, Scene of Meet
BY Harold E. Bechtol
European Manager for Newspaper
 Enterprise Association

PARIS, March 29.-During the time the league of nations covenant was be- ing written meetings of 19 men were held in Colonel Houses room on the third floor of the Hotel CriIlon. the workshop of the American commits sion to negotiate peace. There ahe commission on the league of nations drew up its covenant
 There is nothing particularly i'm pressive about room 351 It is the kind Of reception room that may be found in many a French hotel It is large and decorated in the rather elaborate style, But whatever it's appearances may be while it is being used for everyday purposes, it assumed a who'll ly different look during the meetings of the commission.
 In the center of the room. a big round table covered with red cloth. Around the table, 19 chairs for the 19 members Of the commission. Slightly behind yet scattered through this cir cle of seats, a number of ether chairs for French anu English translators. VI the corners, three or four desks. and around the walls occasional chairs for any secretaries whom the members might care to bring with them. All in all, the tables might have been laid for a meeting of the cabinet or an American board oi directors.
 In this room the commission met 10 times during II days. They came to- gether in the morning, afternoon or evening at hours which would not con flict with the program of the peace itself whose work en- visaged their own. or with that of the supreme war council. then engaged up- on pressing questions relating to the of the armistice.
 No Time Set for Days WorK
 It might be figured out that the averaged three hours in length; but it is hardly appropriate to speak of averages in this connee- tion, No time was set by the commis- sion for the termination of the days work. There was job to be done, and mans own time was a secondary Nobody looked at the clock.
 It appears inconceivable that a con- stitution of the league of nations could have been drawn in 30 hours. It was done, but the bald statement is misleading, for it fails to take cer- tain things into account. It says noth- ing for instance, of single eXpedient by which the task of the commission was cut clearly in half.
 Whether one spoke in English or in French, it made no difference. As he .al6ed there might be heard the low nun of interpreters translating his re- marks word by word and phrase by phrase.
 Every moment of the 30 hours was naed to work, and no time was lost in he slow but prevailing process of re- translation.
 It fails likewise to reckon in all the bought which had previously been yiven to the subject Each one of the statesmen sat around the table and lad formulated definite ideas on the subject. and came to the conferences with an illuminated and active mind.
 Able Men at Table
 Lord Robert Cecil with his scholarly hind, his practical sense and his large ision was ably seconded in present. ng the point of view of the British mpire by General Shuts, the great soer leader of other days, a member f the British war council and the uthor of widely read pamphlet of
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