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Show DOORS ARE CLOSEO 10 ENEMY POWERS ENGLAND WILL INSIST THAT GERMANY BE BARRED FROM I LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey Will Also Have to Prove Trustworthy Before They Will Be Admitted to the League. Paris. Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey cannot be admitted to the' league of nations at the present time, but they should be allowed to join as soon as the league is satisfied that they are entitled to be ranked among the trustworthy nations of the world. This is the opinion expressed by Lord Robert Cecil, who has just turned over to the printer the British plan for the league of nations, which will be submitted to the peace congress. con-gress. Lord Robert declared that "the league should be all-embracing for ail trustworthy nations, since it is for the good of humanity." Asked for a definition of. "trustworthy," "trust-worthy," Lord Robert replied that in the case of Germany one criterion would be in the establishment of a government free from military dominance. domi-nance. This would be a "guarantee of trustworthiness. It was obvious, lie pointed ojjt, that Germany could not be admitted until she had brought order or-der out of the present chaos and the complexion of the new government seen. In Austria the situation was quite different from that in Germany and split up by revolution, while Germany thus' far has held together, continued Lord Roberts, and it appeared probable that a number of separate states would develop from the Austrian empire. "Here, as in the case of Germany," he said, "stable and trustworthy governments gov-ernments must be established. But there is no reason why the various states should not come in when they show themselves fitted to do so, irrespective irre-spective of tne rest." |