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Show ' DELEGATES FAVOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS PEACE PARLEY DELEGATES ARE UNANIMOUS IN APPROVAL OF PROPOSED PLAN. President Wilson in Earnest Address Declares Congress Has Solemn Obligations to Make Permanent Settlement of Great Problems. paris. The peace conference on Saturday, January 25, unanimously adopted the league of nations project. The delegates of the great powers on the league of nations, it was learned will be: For the United States President Presi-dent Wilson and Col. K. M. House; for Great Britain, Lord Robert Cecil and Gen. Jan Christian Smuts; for France, Leon Bourgeois and Ferdinand Lar-naude, Lar-naude, dean of the faculty of law of the University of Fnris; for Italy. Premier Orlando and Viterio Scia-loia Scia-loia ; for Japan, Viscount Chinda and K. Ochiai.- The delegates of the small nations will' be announced later. President Wilson made a brilliant address on the subject of a league of nations when the proposition was presented pre-sented to the conference. The president presi-dent declared the conference had solemn sol-emn obligations to make a permanent settlement. The present conference, the president presi-dent added, could not complete its work until some further machinery or settlement should be set up. The president pres-ident spoke earnestly "We are not here alone," he said, "as representatives of governments, but as representatives of peoples, and in the settlements we make we need to satisfy, satis-fy, not the opinions of governments, but the opinion of mankind." . President Wilson contended that a league of natfcns must be a vital thing and not casual or occasional. It must, have continuity. "It should be the eye of nations, an eye which never slumbers," lie declared. de-clared. On his travels, the president said, people everywhere bad greeted the league as the first thing in their interest. in-terest. "Select classes of men no longer direct di-rect the affairs of the world," said the president, "but the fortunes of the world, are now in the hands of the plain people." The wish of the people, therefore, must be heard. The war bad swept away those old foundations by which small coteries had "used mankind as pawns in a game." Nothing but emancipation eman-cipation from the old system, he contended, con-tended, would accomplish real peace. The president saw American soldiers in the street soldiers who had come, not alone for war, but as "crusaders in a great cause," and he added, "and I like them, must be a crusader, whatever what-ever it costs to accomplish that end." Peace Must Be Secure After declaring that the conference was for the purpose of a settlement arising out of the war .and to make peace for the world, President Wilson said : "A league of nations seems necessary for both purposes. There are many questions which w feel cannot ultimately ulti-mately be worked out here, that may require subsequent considerations, subsequent sub-sequent alterations even to some degree." de-gree." The first signs of a division in the conference was when it proceeded to consider the four resolutions framed by the council of the great powers, providing for committees on labor, responsibility for the war, reparation for damages and ports, railways and waterways. |