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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