Show DIFFICULTIES SEEN IN COVENANT 1 OF LEAGUE But Lord Shaw Declares Matters Can Be Adjusted I LONDON LONDON Tuesday y March Tn In opening the conference of the League I of Nations union which began at Westminster today with British I French American Norwegian Greek antI and other delegates In attendance Lord Shaw who was elected president president dent said that the covenant of the thel l league ague of as formulated in Paris unquestionably presented serious serious seri seri- ous difficulties Lord Shaw said he was a great deal concerned as to the powers of the delegates under the covenant No Noone Noone one would dream of suggesting he proceeded that the great powers and the small powers should stand equal In rank or that those who had borne In the greatest measure the horrors horrors' and burdens of f the war should not have practical deference paid to their position But he added all those things could be adjusted FEAR OF PARALYSIS Ore of the most contEsted topics which you will have to discuss continued con con- Lord Shaw is the question whether unanimity either of the delegates or of the council Is to be bethe bethe the only condition upon which assent for certain important powers can be secured or whether the necessity for such unanimity may not paralyze the league just at those crises when t t ml might ht save the world The question of disarmament Is the most practical of the Issues International In- In or social Those nations which have been locked in combat more inore than four years must unless civilization is to die be relieved of the tue pressure of military and naval expenditure Otherwise their peoples will be apt to forsake civilization for and society will be disrupted Lord Shaw for this reason warmly approved Premier Llo Lloyd d Georges George's drastic proposal to reduce the Ue German army to men WORK FOR PEACE Premier Venizelos of Greece who Is ono one of the delegates said that In working for the league of nations those who did so also were svere working for internal peace saying that unless national desires could be satisfied international difficulties would be solved lIe deprecated any effort to tomake make malte the york work of the organizers of the league of nations so complete at atthe atthe the as to run the risk of having no league at all I Leon Bourgeois president of the French Society for a League of Nations NIl NIlI I said that the requirements for unanimity of decision on the part of the members of the league might endanger endanger en- en danger its whole structure Oscar S. S Straus of the American League eague to Enforce e P Peace ace referring to I I the opposition In America to the league of nations said there were always those whose eyes looked to the past but there were others whose vision looked to the future America he declared expected its representatives tives to translate the hopes of the people of the world into the security for which they looked for all future time |