The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-07
PACE SIX
WINNING BOX
PEACE PLAN is
MADE PUBLIC
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known at present-not even to the
jury which made the award. No
names, only numbers were attached
to the plans as submitted to the jury.
Elihu Root is chairman Of the jury
Inc other me mbers are: Ma Gen
james Guthrie Harbond, Col. Edward
NJ House, Ellen +. Pendleron, pres
ident OF WELLESLEY college, Roscoe
Pound, dean Of the law school at
Harvard university, William Allen
White and Brand Whitlock, former
United States minister to Belgium.
The plan viii now be submitted to
the American people for their APP
prevail Ballots viii be printed in
newspapers and magazines through
out the United States readers for
which are invited to fiji out that bal
lot and mail 1t promptly to the
American Peace Alard 3i2 Madison
avenue. New York City
10 Get $4,000 at Once
According TO the conditions Of Tho
contest, No 1869, the winner, wII be
gwen immediately, as soon as his
identity is disclosed, $4,000 one
half OF the prlZc The other $50,OOO
will be pad when and if the plan is
approved uy the United States Sen
ate or upon demonstration of an
adequate dc&rce of popular support.
The decision to withhold the name
Of the winner until n ter the refer
cndum was made by the policy com
-, ttco made mn OF John " Davis,
Ilil,.r I.o,.rnc. Hand, William II
Johnston Nathan l.. Miller, Mrs
CiTord pincnGt, Mrs Ogden REID,
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry
/. Stjn,son. Melville f.. Stone, Mrs
Frank Vanderbilt. Esther Everett
Iapp. member in charge, and Cornell
ius n. Bliss, Jr., treasurer.
The Peace plan
The substantial provisions which
( constitute the plan selected Wy tn,
;u,v of award and upon which the
vote Of tnr American people is asked,
.ra horchv submitted by the Policy
. Committee as follows:
F,,er the Permanent Court.
THAT the United States adhere TO
Tho Permanent Court of InternntIon-
al Iuetico for thc reasons and under
+bo co,dit;ons stated bv Secretary
un,,bae and Pres dent Harding in
Eeb,uorv 1923
=, c,.o,or,tc with tb, Lc;,rue of
N.t;orr N;thou, Full Member
chin ,t Present
+rh,+ without Incoming n member
&c ia J.a,guo of Nations as at pres
ant constituted the United States
/, ,oyor,ron, should extend its pres
am, co-onoration with the League and
!. n,onose norticipation in the work of
! -. Assemble and Council under the
4 fo,,owinr conditions and rcserva-
: t;ons
I c,r.u,,rd;,o of Nouroc Doctrine
!, The United States accepts the
Ie,nuo If Nations as an instrument
4 of mutual counsel. but it is as
sn,,c mo oblipation TO interfere wila
rol;ticoi ouestIons of policy or in
! tornol administration of any foreign
state
I. Tn uniting its efforts with those of
o,hn,. states for the preservation Of
| ro,co and tho nromo,ion of the com
mon welfare. the United States in
sists upon the SAT- guarding o. the
Monroe Doctrine and does not aban-
don its traditions attitude concerning
American independence &C the OH
World and does not consent to sub
nit its long established policy con-
corning questions regarded by it as
purely American to the recommends
ton or decision of other Powers.
Is No Military or Economic Force.
"a g. The only kind OF compulsion
which nations can freely engage to
apply to each other in the name of
Peace is that which arises from con-
ference, from moral judgment, from
full publicity, and from the power
of public opinion.
u The United States will assume no
obligations under Article X in its
lpresent form. or under Article XVI
Tin it's present form in the Covenant,
or in it's amended form as now pro-
fposed, unless in any particular case
ECongress has authorized such action
The United States proposes that
Particle X and XVI be either dropped
2altogether or so amended and chang
led as to eliminate any suggestion of
III Ia general agreement to use coercion
lfor obtaining conformity to the
spledges of the Covenant.
M Oh,irations Under Versailles
Treaty
III 2 The United States will accent
sno responsibilities under the Treaty
kof Versailles unless in any particular
scase CONGRESS- has auth orized such
..ct;o,