Evening star., 1927-11-20
HAVANA PARLEY TO STUDY
LEAGUE EXCLUSION PLAN
Recommendations of Jurists' Conference
to Be Taken Up at Early Session
of Pan-American Group.

The report of the jurists of Rio to
| the. conference at Havana, where
| Charles Evans Hughes will be the
chief delegate of the United States.
proposes to change the Pan-Amerl'
| can Union into a central agency FOR
| the considering of American inter-
national controversies and difficulties.
1t provides, for instance, that Amerl-
can states, when directly injured
| by a violation of international law
may address themselves to the Pan
American Union. in order that the
Union may bring about an exchange
of views on the matter"
War Suggestions Possible.
It provides that when there is
war there shall be an immediate meet
ing of the governing board OF the
Pan-American Union Ito ascertain
the common interests of the states
and to suggest to them fitting meas
ures."
1t provides that the Pan-American
Union may appoint commissions in the
course of any war in order Ito observe
how the belligerents conform to the
laws and usages of war" and in order,
if thought desirable. to issue protests
against the behavior of the belliger-
ents.
1t provides, finally, and above all,
that the Pan-American Union, in GER
tain circumstances, may take eXclu-
Sive and monopolstic charge of an
American dispute. 1t does this in the
following historic words:
I'm the event of a serious question
which endangers the peace of nations
(signatory to this treaty., any one Of
the parties to the question can have
recourse to the governing board of
the Pan-American Union. which shall
thereupon exercise the functions of a
council of conciliation. The request
shall be addressed to the director
general of the union, who shall
without delay present it to the presi-
dent of the governing board. The
latter shall summon the board i'm.
mediately. The interested states shall
refrain from direct communication
with one another during the govern
ing boards determination of the ma
ture and form of it's recommenda-
ton"
These arrangements, put together,
establish a totally novel political sys.
tenn for the Western Hemisphere.
Just who or what inspired the ju-
rists of Rio to build this system for
the program of action by the as
sembled American states at Havana
next January is a question which
seems thoroughly involved in mystery
Inquiry at our State Department in.
dicates that our delegates at Rio,
James Brown Scott and Jesse Reeves,
received no instructions whatsoever
authorizing them to proceed in any
such direction. They are gentlemen
nf hi IN, s,,tn
tional affairs, but it can be stated that
the United States Government has
given no official sanction to the recon-
which they took part in
framing at Rio.
L. s. May Oppose Plan.
In fact, it may be soundly surmised
that the United States Government
in the conference at Havana will op-
pose the system which those recon-
mendat atoms have brought forward to
the attention of the world. 1t can.
not be too clearly understood that the
United States Government is not en-
deavoring to organize an American
league to be set up in contrast to,
and in conflict with, the league at
Geneva.
1t is also noteworthy that many
Latin American diplomats in Wash
ington are thoroughly opposed to
changing the Pan-American Union
into being a pan-American super
government"
Only the sessions Of the diplomats
at Havana. however, will be able to
explore and reveal the full nature of
North American and South American
opinion and purpose in the matter.
All that can be said for certain now
is that at Havana the political civili-
zation of the Western Hemisphere
will be called upon to weigh the merits
and demerits of the most comprehen-
sive plan ever presented to 1t for
setting off the Americas into an in
ternational society of their own.