LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 6

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TO ENFORCE INTERNATIONAL LAW

AND PRESERVE PEACE AFTER

THE WAR

Washington, March 21

Senator Owen has introduced a' resolution in the Senato authorising the President to call a League of Allied Nations. Ho urged that i.ho L'tited States. England, France, Japan, Italy, and China should draft a treaty, stipulating the principles of international law. The league should lequire Germany to make ;>eace within thirty days or to be isolated commercially for five years, or suffer on increased penalty if she prolongs tne delay in naking peace. Senator Owen suggested that it might bp aecossary to cut out the Germans' exports, importE; cables, telegrams, and mails. The United Press correspondent at Washington states Senator Owen's speech, following one by Lord Parmoor in the Houso of Lords, may bo interpreted as the beginning of an informal feeler of world opinion as to a League of Nations to enforce peace after tho war—Aus.-N.Z. CliiWe Assn. fin the House of Lords Lord Piirmoor moved that approval be expressed with a League of Nations with a tribunal empowered to enforce orders. Lord Lorcburn seconded the notion, saying that the only alternative was evon greater armaments than before the war. Lord Lansdowno said the crushing of an adversary could not be the final victory in the field, but only give a breathing space. A League of Nations was the only hope for piviranent relief from war.]