Evening star., 1925-09-20
Brilliant Assembly Will
Gather in Capital
Next Week.
Friend and Foe i'm World
War to Rub Shoulders
In Conference.

The most important gathering of
international figures in Washington
since the disarmament conference,
and much larger and more pictur-
esque than that assembly, will meet
here next week.
1t will be a real parliament of the
world. Statesmen, soldiers and inter
national lawyers of worldwide fame
fill the tentative list of more than
800 delegates.
The world leaders are coming to
Washington to consider a new, COM
prehensIve, technical and detailed plan
for the establishment of a permanent
regime of peace on earth.
This plan, which promises to take
up the greater part of the time of the
conference, would guard against fu-
ture wars by a worldwide extension
of the principle of the demilitarized
frontier zone, which effectively has
kept the peace between the United
States and Canada for more than
century.
From 80 Nations.
The occasion will be the twenty
third conference of the International
Parliamentary Union, with represent
atives from the legislative bodies of
80 nations, and more likely to be
Indications are that the meeting
will go far deeper than mere techni
calitieS and penetrate to the heart of
some of the most intricate and vital
issues before the world today.
1t will be the largest assembly of
the union ever held. At the last ses-
sion in Geneva only 25 nations were
represented. Friend and foe of u
few years ago will mingle here in per-
feet harmony. With the single eXcep-
ton of the Versailles Conference, prob
ably no conference in history has seen
SO many national representatives as
sembled with the single purpose of
bringing about a better understanding
between governments and peoples.
Many of the delegates already are
in the United States. The bulk of
them are due to reach Washington
September 80. In addition to the dele
gates themselves. a small army of cor
respondents, observers and friends is
expected.
A who's Who" of the men expected
here, which is being made up at the
headquarters of the local orga niZation
in the Colorado Building, reveals
names which are almost household
words, especially in Europe. 1t in
cludes such picturesque figures as
Gen. Richard Mulcahy, leader of the
forces of the Irish Free State: DR.
Paul Lobe, president of the German
Reichstag, and Dr. Otaka Nebuska,
famous Bohemian composer.
World League Proposed.
The peace plan, which promises to
be the foremost business before the
conference, proposes the establish
ment of an entirely new international
orga nization with headquarters in
Switzerland and with the Permanent
Court of International Justice at The
Hague as it's judicial prop.
This organization would, gradually,
by negotiation and treaties, bring
about along all national border lines
in the world zones absolutely closed
to military or naval preparations,
where soldiers would not be permitted
to set foot as military men, whose
citizens probably would be exempt
from military service, and where the
sight of a fort or a big gun would be
unknown. Theoretically the land in
these demilitarized zones would re-
main in possession of the nations now
owning 1t, but 1t would be under the
control of commissions Of nationals
of both countries affected, appointed
from Geneva.
The plan proposes tying the creak-
ing, shaking old world together with
an interlacing of broad, strong white
! ribbons.
An elaborate program of entertain
ment is being arranged for the dele
gates. Officials Of the American group
of the Interparliamentary Union are
| arranging much of this through the
embassies and legations here. A fe-
verish atmosphere of preparation now
| is evident at the headquarters. The
week unquestiona.bly will be one of
the busiest in the history of the diplo-
| matte corps here.
Debate i'm Many Tongues.
! The business of the session will be
| conducted primarily in four languages
| German. French, Spanish and English.
| Arrangements are being made. how
ever. for the instant translation of
Japanese, Polish. Danish. Portuguese
and a, dozen other tongues less often
heard at international assemblies.
Arrangements also are being made
! for guides and information clerks ia
!