LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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I WILSON’S SCHEME DRAFTED
LONDON, .Jan. 21
The Exchange Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states: —President Wilson has completed the draft of his scheme for a League of Nations. The scheme is based on study of the ideas of the various Allies, it is one embodying important French and British features, and also some of those suggested in General Smuts’s recent pamphlet. The general perusal <>i the President’s scheme is another combination of ideas that are exclusively President ’Wilson’s own.
It is understood that under President Wilson’s scheme, the present Allies will form the nucleus of the League, whereto every free nation shall have access.
It provides for compulsory arbitration for disputes. President Wilson shows how the development of a new world spirit will prevent future war with Germany and Russia. He considers that a Peace settlement would ho useless if it left half Europe aflame. It is understood that Mr Lloyd George outspokenly agrees with President Wilson. SWISS HOPES. PARIS, Jan. 22. The Swiss President has arrived. He is not officially associated with the Conference, lyut' hopes to converse with Allied statesmen, with a view to securing a maritime outlet per the river ■Rhine, and admission to the League’of Nations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1919, Page 1
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