Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-19 | Page 1 | Denies Rumors of Dissensions

DENIES RUM0HS OF DISSENSIONS League to Enforce Peace Issues Statement Bearing on Current Reports. NEW YORK, March 18. The League to Enforce Peace, of which William Wil-liam Howard Taft is, president, issued a statement tonigTit denying that the organization is split by serious differences differ-ences of opinion among officers and .members over its indorsement of the Paris covenant of the league of nations. na-tions. "Since the leaguo announced its indorsement," in-dorsement," the statement declared, "only eight members have resigned out of a total list of 300,000." Onl' three of these are officers. None of the league's 7300 volunteer speakers or 3000 clergymen all over the country has withdrawn his pledge to work under the league's direction, it was asserted. "Mr. Taft's attitude, which is substantially sub-stantially that of the league," the statement said, "is that he would accept ac-cept the Paris covenant as it stands and thank God for it; that it does not, however, fully meet his ideals, not being be-ing as strong in some respects as the plan we have beeu advocating; that he would like to see amendments that would strengthen it and thinks it wise to make changes that will make still more clear the meaning which we understood un-derstood it to carry. Ho is also favorable favor-able to making changes that will placate opinion, especially in the direction of definite acceptance of the Monroe doctrine, doc-trine, which we understand is already the real basis of the instrument. "Neither Mr. Taft nor the loague, however, favors amendments after tho treatv is finally adopted in Paris, as ameudmeut would then probably mean defeat of the league"