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Show UTAH P E A CE LEAGUE URGES RATIFICATION Resolution Adopted to Be j Read at Meetings Held Throughout State. Opposition to any Amendment Amend-ment of Paris Covenant Is Expressed. The buboon'imitu-e on information and s.-e.ikers ,if the Mali i. ranch of liie League j to i;mv:ve reac. of which It. 'Jeoi-KC V. Atid'lk-uui I chairman, at a mectmw j in ihc Hotel Utah adopted tho following resolut inn : 'Itesulvcd. 'I'h if v-c favor, aivocito and in-ift tlio ratification ,,f toe iae treaty, including I be league of nations covenant, withouL any attempt at furl iier amendment amend-ment at It, is time by tho senate of tho I, nited .States. Definite Stand Sought. 1 hi proposed to have the above reso- hilion read at ratification meetings all out Lie stale, plans for which were laid .it the meeting. It Is tho intention of the general committee to seek definite favorable fa-vorable utterances from all religious, business, educational, labor, social and fraternal organizations throughout tho state. After, the meeting the following statement state-ment wits Issued: "The League to Enforce Peace opposes .amending the Paris covenant in tho United Slates senate, not because the present covenant is the last word in perfect per-fect Inn but because further changes will postpone pence indefinitely and probably defeat the whole league of nations movement. move-ment. If the eoouant proves, unworkable, unwork-able, we can amend It after the league is osbiiillshed, or oven withdraw from the league altogether, but let It not bo said of America that we were too timid even to try a plan which promises so much lor ail mankind. .Meaning of Changes Cited. "Do loose who demand further amendments amend-ments appreciate want such changes will meanV While It is true that our senate has amended treaties in the past, never before has it been asked lo pass upon a treatv involving such a largo number of nations Any amendments it adopts, to be effective, must be approved by the countries which already have indorsed the covenant through their representatives representa-tives In Paris. If we send the. covenant on a tour or tile parliaments of the world with a tlock of amendments seeking international approval, ap-proval, it mav in time .come home with loose amendment's ratified, but it cer-tainlv cer-tainlv will gather other amendments m Lie i'ourncv. These amendments in turn will "mill ire eeneral approval, and the. result re-sult would be indefinite postponement, not onlv of the league covenant, -but ot mo whole peace treaty, of which it is a vital pari." |