Show LEAGUE OF NATIONS IT SIGNED i DOCUMENT SUBSCRIBED TO BY FOURTEEN OU TEEN GOVERNMENTS GOVERNMENTS JS iS PRAISED BY WILSON Plan for League of Great Powers Is Handed to Plenary Session of the Paris Pans Peace Conference Being Una Unanimously i Accepted I I Paris President President Wilson was was' the the central figure of the tile plenary peace conference conference con con- con I ference on February 14 when he lie read the covenant establishing a league of nations There was added interest In the session session session ses ses- sion as ns It was was- the last gathering of the delegates delegate l to it the presidents pre departure as well as being the occasion occasion occa occa- sion Ion of presenting the document with which his name was Identified I r i have bave very great pleasure said President Wil Wilson on as he began pegan In presenting presenting pre pro tenting the report of the commission which has framed the constitution of ofa ofa a league league of of ot nations I am particularly particular y happy to be nl able le to say It Is a unanimous unanimous report signed by the representatives Lives tives o of all aU the tile powers on the commit Commit- committee tee tee President Wilson spoke earnestly but without oratorical effect The best report I can make the president continued Is to read read- the document Itself The Tile reading continued for thirty thirty- five live minutes without t Interruption or applause As Ashe he lie closed the president laid aside t the document and spoke of what wb t had been accomplished The deliberations deliberations de do- liberations of the commission had been most instructive instinctive and throughout t the 1 proceedings proceedings- there was an und undertone of enthusiasm in the great work being ac at accomplished accomplished ac- ac he said The Tue results said President Wilson embodied the judgment of fourteen rna rna- na na- nations Lions represented on OD the commission and these fourt fourteen fourtin en nations were a representative representative rep rep- group group of the conference It It self melt This Is a a union n of ot will In a common purpose the president preceded It ItIs Itis ItS is S a union which cannot Be ne resisted and nd I dare are say one which no nation will attempt to resist The rhe president pointed out that the It ent was n no straightjacket was elastic and not a vehicle of might he lie said It was yet jet et to be dev developed loped and nd as yet jet et care should be taken as to to the clothes put on it While elastic yet vet It was as definite continued President It It Il Is definite Wilson as a guarantee e against ag ag- ag- ag It is definite against a renewal renewal re re- re- re newal newal- of f such a cataclysm as has ju Just t shaken civilization civilIzation There is one especially notable feature fea lea Hire ture in this tills document he said We Ve Weare Weare are done with annexations of or helpless fI peoples oples at times tunes accomplished in the time past for the purposes of exploiting these peoples In this document nt W we recognize recognise that these helpless communities are arc first to be helped and anti developed developed de do- and amI that their own interests and shall come before an any material advantage e to th the m mandatory with their cas case |