Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-07
FULL TEXT OF PLAN PROVIDING
COOPERATION between UNITED
States and Other NATIONS

economic reconstruction, and in one
OAKLAND Islands) which averted 4
war. American women serve as eX-
pert Assessors upon the Opium and
Traffic in Women Commissions.
Two philanthropic agencies in the
United States have between them
pledged more than 100000 to sup
port either the work of the Epi-
denies Commission or the League
inquiry into conditions of the traffic
in women and children.
How Can Increasing Cooperation Be-
tween the United States and the
Organized World Re Secured?
The United States being already
so far committed to united counSelS
with League agencies for the COM
mon social welfare. all of which
have some bearing upon the preser-
walton of world peace, the question
before us may take this form:
How can increasing cooperation
between the United States and the
organized world for the promotion Of
peace and security be assured, in
forms acceptable to the people of the
United States and hopefully prac-
ticable?
The United States Can Extend Its
EISSCuG SOOPeTdItCn WIKI IU0
Leagues Social Welfare Activities
Without any change in it's present
policy, already described. the United
States Government could. first. show
its willingness to cooperate similarly
with the other. humane and recon-
structive agencies of the League. To
four of these agencies that Govern
ment had already sent delegates with
advisory powers. 1t could as prop
erly accept invitations to accredit
members with like powers to each
one of the other welfare commits
sions. 1t has already received invita-
tons from two of the latter.
1t is. secondly. Immediately practi-
cable to extend the same kind of CO.
operation. whenever asked to do it,
so as to include participation in the
work of the commissions and techni-
cal committees of the Labor Organi-
zation. The record shows that such
cooperation is already begun.
The single common purpose of all
these committees Is the collection
and study of information, on which
may be based subsequent recon-
mendations for national legislation.
All conventions and resolutions,
recommended by the first three con-
crosses of the International Labor
organization, have already been laid
before the Senate of the United
states and. without objection, refer
red to the appropriate committee.
No different procedure would have
been followed if the United States
were a member of the Labor Organ
iZation of the League.
An immediate Step Is Adherence to
the Permanent Court
A third Immediately practicable
step is the Senate's approval of the
proposal that the United States ad-
here to the Permanent Court of
International Justice for the rea-
sons and under the conditions stated
by Secretary Hughes and President
Harding in February, 1923.
These three suggestions for in
creasing cooperation with the family
of nations are in harmony with poll
cies already adopted by our Govern
ment, and in the last case with a pol
icy so old and well recognized that
1t may now be called traditional.
They do not involve a question OF
in the League OF Ma
tons as now constituted, but it can
not be denied that they lead to the
threshold of that question. Any
further step toward cooperation must
confront the problem of direct rela-
tons between the United States and
the Assembly and Council of flftv-
four nations in the League
'Fifty-seven States including Germany.
are members of the International Labor
Organization OF the League. There are
about sixty-Gve Independent States in the
world.
In Actual Operation the League En-.
ploys No Force
League during its first three and n
half years OF life has not only
wrought out, in a group of prece-
dents, the beginnings of what might
be called the constitutional law of
the League. but 1t has also shifted
the emphasis in activities of the
League and foreshadowed important
notifications in its constitution, the
Covenant.
At its birth the Covenant of the
League bore. vaguely in Article V
and more clearly in Article XVI, the
impression of a general agreement
to enforce and coerce. Both of those
Articles suggest the action of n
world-state which never existed and
does not now exist. How far the
present League issactually removed
from functioning as such a State is
sufficiently exhibited in its dealings
with Lithuania and Poland over
Wilma and their common boundary,
and with Greece and Italy over
Corfu.
Experience In the last three years
has demonstrated probably inslper-
able difficulties in the way of fulfill
Ing in all parts of the world the large
promise of Article x in respect to
either its letter or its spirit. No one /
now expects the League Council to
try to summon armies and fleets,
since it utterly failed to obtain even
an international police force for the
wilma district