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Show (FORTNIGHT sifor ! PEACE PACT Lord Cecil Declares There Is No Likelihood of Delay in Concluding Conclud-ing Final Negotiations. Says Monroe Doctrine Is Strengthened by the League of Nations Covenant, Cov-enant, Not Weakened. PARIS, March 19. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) fhc Ainericau delegation, it is said, plans to accept ac-cept a limited number of amendments amend-ments to tlie leaguo of nations covenant. cove-nant. Secretary of State Lans'ng will preside ceu the meeting of delegates of neutral nations Thursday Thurs-day to hear their views ou tho situation. sit-uation. It is expccteil that, tho leajue of nations commission will then rcas- semblo and perfect the amendment;:, and that the completed covemsi.t will then he attached to the p3ic! i treaty. II LONDON. Mareh 19. There is a scroll? ' feeling in political and diplomaUo circles ! in Paris in favor of inviting Herbert 11. , Asquith, former British premier, -lo bu- i come the first president of Die leaguo of lj nations, according to the Daily Mirror. ;j PARIS, Tuesday, March IS. Hy t:io jj Associated Press.) Inclusion uf tlie c league of nations covenant in the prelim- ii inary peace treaty will not delay the siiin- ing of the trealy, which, it is hoped, will I be accomplished within two weeks, said j1 ; Lord Robert Cecil of Great Britain, talk- i in. to British and American newspaper j; correspondents tonight. He said thac !j three amendments to the covenant had ; been submitted, but added lie was "suiu ; there will be no difficulty in meeting all i legitimate objections." Discussing the Monroe doctrine and thl effect of the league of nations upon it, Lord Robert said: SAYS DOCTRINE IS STRENGTHENED BY PACT, "The Monroe docti i no is si re ngt he tied 1 by the league of nations covenant, because be-cause international action will ho earrh d out by the organs of t hc leap no. Te. United States will he represented o'n each body, and, since these bodies arc in ter- . ' national, no, action can he taken without. 1 1 1 e consent of. all. No action can hr, taken by the league which Is opposed by the United States government unless su'di action should bo against the United State itself, and that would not affect the Mon- , roe doctrine. I "If, on the other hand, tlie view is that there ought to he a complete and watertight water-tight division between the American continent con-tinent and tlie rest of the world, t hen, no doubt, any action in which Amei ica takes part would be an infringement, of the Monroe doctrine. For my part-, 1 should regard any such doctrine as disastrous disas-trous to t lie tut ure f the world. The war left the United Stat es in a pofci I Urn 1 of enormous power. j j PEACE OF WORLD AN AMERICAN INTEREST. "With that gigantic power goes great responsibility to the world at large and to herself. Tlie peace of the, world Is not ' ! only a Fun mean, hut an A met h-an. in-rieiest. in-rieiest. America cannot afford to pay that she has no interest in what goen on in Furope. If she did, siie would bo false to the world at large and to herself." The military terms of tho treaty of peace have been amended by the elimination elimina-tion of the clause providing for the control con-trol of Germany's armament for an indefinite in-definite period. Admiral W. S. Pcnr-.m ; of Ihe Unittd Stales navy puinu-d out tha t Ihe origin a 1 terms com in i 1 1 ed tin United States to a virtually ridel in it o oceiipa! Ion id Germany, and It was chjelly on 1:1s iiisi'scnce tnat tho terms were modified. American n'H gates jilo pnh,:. , id mil that eonlrul of any porlion of Germany Ger-many for ;-U' h a period would delay Inn return home of American troops and would amount to annulling tiie sovereignty sovereign-ty of bTinaii;. . PROVISIONS OF NEW TERMS AS AMENDED. Aft a ui' rah d, l h terms pro ide for emi-iroi emi-iroi li.pau-P ti,,- tltii" fed for lb, der. -o y of m .tej. i.-..s of wat, guns and i-h'j but ; ot 1 b row:; i i Hi" period d u ring w lib ) iitr ilatiaigis will be paid by Geiinanv. Tiie . on;iui:--i'.:i appointed , , onsba-r plans Jor an international ;( j- code an- ' no'mr-ed Tod.ty that the fuitisb proposals I had been, in the liuln. a'-eple.. An international council wi.l be formed a.- a -ecu.,,, ,,f the league of tiatjouH to handle 'I all matters I'datp.e to aerial na iga t ion . ! it lias l.ee,, , cm!-, J t Celt ca" WlGoU '- is entitled to K'n'T'-iiaily over the nir above it. Tin re U to be no dlyriinina- tion aL'airst any nation by another; air j I pilots v. ill be lice, ... d on an interna t jonwj ' (Continued on Pane 11, Column 2.) h 'I FORTNIGHT TO SEE SIGH OF PEACE (Continued from Page One.) basis, and there will be international rules governing the, right of way for airplanes air-planes and airships. MANY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS DISCUSSED BY SUBCOMMITTEES PARIS, March 19. The peace conference confer-ence 'commission on the international regime of ports, waterways and railways met at the ministry of public works today to-day to consider clauses regarding transportation trans-portation by rail to be inserted in the treaty of, peace. Consideration of these clauses -will be continued at the next meeting of the commission, which was set for 10 o'clock Thursday morning. The commission on international labor legislation held probably us last meeting today, when it reached an agreement on all points at issue. The American contention con-tention that each country should settle its internal labor problems, without invoking in-voking the power of the league of nations, prevailed. The situation in Galicia was considered by the supreme council at its session this afternoon, and it was decided to request the Poles and the Ukrainians to cease hostilities under certain conditions. Premier Uoyd George, who was asked by President Wilson, Premier Clemenceau and Premier Orlando to postpone his return re-turn to London, has decided to remain in Paris until the draft of the treaty of peace is concluded. |