Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-12
Robert Cecil Tells
What League Really Is
BY EDWARD NJ. THIERRY
NEA Service Staff Writer

NEA Service Staff Writer
NEW YORK, April 12.-Will the
United States join the League of Ma
tons? What would we gain by join
ing? What Is the League of Ma
tons?
These questions are paramount as
Lord Robert Cecil, greatest British
exponent of the much-discussed
covenant, tours the country making
q series of speeches thai will close in
New York April 81.
Lord Robert says he is here, not
to try to talk the United States into
joining the league, but to tell the
American people what the league
has accomplished and what 1t hopes
to do to end warfare.
Protagonists and antagonists of
the League of Nations are interested
in what Lord Robert says. Nearly
everyone has a question to ask
many of them elementary questions.
To get Informative answer to
such queries the Perth Amboy Eve
ming News, through NEA Service.
prepared a list of 10 representative
questions and submitted them TO
Lord Robert. Here are his
personally authorized:
4. Q. How many nations are
now members of the League of Ma
lions? Which ones are not MEM
bers?
A. There are now So nations
who are members of the league.
The So include Austria, Hungary and
Bulgaria, who were all opposed TO
the allies during the great war. The
principal countries, recognized as
members of the community of states,
which have not yet Joined the league
are the United States of America,
Germany, Russia, Turkey, and Mex
leo. OF these, Turkey has announce
ed her intention of applying for
membership in the league as soon as
she has made peace with Greece and
the allies. Great Britain, France and
Italy have promised to support her.
2. Q. Is the league mechanism
now efficient for world f~unctioning?
A. The machinery Of the league
has been used successfully in find
ing solutions for a considerable
number of problems of general
world Importance. AS organs for
joint consultation and cooperation,
the council and the assembly have
been much more successful than
anyone had hoped they could be in
the early stages of their develop
ment. The principal reason for this,
in my view, is hat the whole of the
proceedings of the assembly and Of
its committees are held in public
and hat full publicity is given, in
various ways, to the work of the
council.
!; g.. @. What notable cases has
the league adjudicated?
A. The principal cases of inter-
national disputes so far dealt with
by the league are as follows: The
disput concerning the Aland Islands
between Sweden and Finland; the
dispute between Poland and Lithu-
ania concerning Wilma; the dispute
| between Germany and Poland con-
corning Upper Silesia; and the dis
pute between Serpia and Albania
concerning their mutual frontier
In all these cases, war was stopped
or prevented and in three of them a
final solution which received the
full consent of the parties was found.
4. Q. Why, since the league
was expected to end wars, have there
, been so many wars since the adop-
/ ton of the covenant?
! A. 1t is true that when the
league came into being there were
, still a number of going on
All these wars, in n way or an
= other, were combinations of the
: great World War. No new war has
broken out since the covenant came
into force. There are no wars a.
| present going on and peace is every
: where re-established, except be-
t tween Turkey and Greece.
5. @. Will American soldiers bt
called into outside %Quarrels in order
to enforce league discipline?
A. No soldiers belonging to any
state member of the league would
ever be called to take part in any
quarrel except with that states con
| sent.
O.. o. Do you mean literally "a,
stated in your speech before the Wo-
mans Pro-League Council in New
York. April ~ hat the league does
not, and will not rely on force? WI
public opinion be the only weapon
''with teeth?"
A. I mean that the league doe
not seek to arrive at the solution o.
, the problems with which it deals b5
means of force, and that it will no
; endeavor to enforce the acceptance
of it's recommendations on any coun'
! try by any form of armed or othci
forceful Intervention. 1t is by the