Saturday, January 26, 2019

Peace Conference Adopts League of Nations, Reported Jan. 26, 1919

From The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., Jan. 26, 1919

League of Nations Is Agreed Upon Unanimously by Peace Conference; Will be Integral Par of Treaty. . . Open to Every Country Willing to Promote International Obligations and to Provide Safeguards Against War

By the Associated Press

Paris, January 25—The peace conference, at its session today, unanimously adopted the league of nations project. President Wilson made the initial speech in advocation of the league and was followed by Premier Lloyd George of England, Premier Orlando of Italy and Leon Bourgeois of France, all of whom gave strong support to the plan.

The preliminary draft says that the league should have a permanent organization to carry on the business between meetings of international conferences of all the members. It says that the conference should appoint a committee representative of all the governments to work out the details of the constitution and functions of the league.

President and Col. House Named

The delegates of the great powers on the league of nations will be: For the United States, President Wilson and Col. Edward M. House; for Great Britain, Lord Robert Cecil and Gen. Jan Christian Smuts; for France, Leon Bourgeois and Ferdinand Larnaude, dean of the faculty of law of the University of Paris; for Italy, Premier Orlando and Viterio Scialola; for Japan, Viscount Chinda and K. Ochjai. The delegates of the small nations will be announced later.

Statement of the League’s Object

The statement officially given out is as follows:

The conference, having considered the proposals for the creation of a league of nations, resolved that:
It is essential to the maintenance of the world settlement which the associated nations now are met to establish that a league of nations be created to promote international obligations and to provide safeguards against war. This league should be created as an integral part of the general treaty of peace and should be open to every civilized nation which can be relied on to promote its objectives.

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