The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-08

particular nations. l don't see anyl more danger in making one treaty to which all nations are a party than to make separate treaties with 83 na- tions. The covenant of the league goesgl less far than treaties we have made | With a few countries. It would be a wise thing for us to watch constantly ! aany proposed amendment to the League Covenant so as to be sure that it $ congenial to our institutions and their perpetuity. Remember that 1T any amendment is proposed in the League Covenant, it goes in effect among only those nations that are in 1 favor of it ard those opposed can in l stantly leave. So American interests are protected.
 Question.
 Doesn't the League Covenant say that after filing their declaration of two years and carry out" the oohga- , tions which other nations put upon them? Aren't you wrong?
 Answer.
 I'm not wrong. The covenant does say that any nation has a right 70 leave the league without giving req son. All it has to do i'll that case is to serve notice that it will leave in two years. That is one place. The place I am referring to-you get your copy and look at it-says that when ever an amendment is adopted state
  cept it but it shall at once cease to be a member of the league.
 Question.
 How under Article x. would the people of Shantung be affected How might they in time get their freedom
 or return to China, if they so desirea: Must they always remain as they are? Answer.
 I am glad to have a question from one of the ladies. Shantung is a pen 1 insula on the Chinese coast The Ger mans had exacted from China certain 1 concessions of political control and commercial exploitation by which the | Germans were to operate certain con i sessions around Kiao-Chow and the ! Shantung peninsula. Japan entered 1 on the side of the Allies long before 1 we went in and asked England and ] France whether they would be Will i ing to have her drive the Germans
 out of the Shantung peninsula and
 which China had made. England and France said they could. Japan asked | China whether she would give the same concessions to her China sald yes. The Japanese therefore oro'e | the Germans out of the Shantung | peninsula and took possession Of the | rights China had granted to the Ger
 mans Whatever Japan has in Shan 1 tung China granted to the Germans.
 People say, and say truthfully, that China never granted anything to Ger } many except by intimidation, ana as
 they lie in force in their origin they are just as wrongful in the hands o1 successors of Germany as 1n the hands of Germany. The President . procured a compromise of that sltua' tion. England and France said they had agreed with Japan that she } would succeed to the rights of Ger l many. The President said: WI WI r YOU not agree, in order to retain Chi nese integrity. to evacuate the shan tuns peninsula as soon as it is possl bIe for you to do it?" Japan said = we will" Japan gave her assurance = that just as soon as it was posslol u for her to withdraw from the politica 3 control of the Shantung peninsui; s she would do it. My belief is yer. t strong that Japan intends toi with l draw from Shantung peninsula, an' if for any reason Japan snoulo pro !. long the day of her withdrawal, ! e would be wholly possible under Artl e cle. x and under another article s which makes any subject tenoins ' = provoke war subject of free councl e for any nation to call the attention o = the council to Japan staying in tn 6 peninsula and I fell that would b S the way Chinese restoration would ul = timate1y come about if Japan dlo nc n l withdraw as soon as poSslple.
 y Question.
 el The Turkish Empire signed tn f treaty. Is the League of Nation h strong enough to save the Christla e Armenians from massacre by tn t Turks?
 e The gentleman asks me this quek s tion, whether in view of the fact tha e the Turkish Empire has signed tn = peace treaty, how I can explain ho' the Armenian people are still bein -- massacred. The President suggeste e a mandate for Armenia. The Sena' 7, thought differently. President Mt 1T kinley was the first who had us tax e a mandate. That was over the Phi e ippine Islands. The League of Ns l. tions is not able nor will not be ao e TO be the sovereign of the world. e is a consulting agency in the intere y of peace. I have the belief that tf ir League of Nations will give it's alter a tion eventually to that question F. has stopped four wars already an n it is constantly being used to kee g. the peace in all parts of the Worl 1t The duty of the United States is 8. go into the League of Nations an of say let's stop the massacre of tf n Armenians and all these massacre m and show them that the intelligent ia of mankind has accomplished re h peace in tho world.