LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
i AUSTRALIAN <fc N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION] THE CONSTITUTION. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. A Paris message states the League of Nations constitution will be published simultaneously in Paris, London and Washington, synchronising with Mr Wilson’s arrival in New York. ,
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (Received This Day at 9.30. a.m.) PARIS, February 8. The League of Nations Commission has decided that the League shall consist of a permanent Council resident in some city chosen by the League probably Brussels, Geneva or the Hague. The League Council consists of representatives of the five Great Powers and four smiller nations, three nations holding the veto. The nations belonging to the League would be permitted to designate their own representatives of tho Council.
President Wilson may lie chosen as the first Chairman of the Council The Council will hare power to appoint an Arbitration Court and other international bodies. There will probably be a. Parliament- whereto tho nations will send delegates when the world-peace is threatened. The freedom of the .Seas will not be discussed in detail by rfie Peace Congress. It will be considered bv the League of Nations witcn that body is formed. Nations signing the constitution of the League of Nations will have the right not to be bound by any 'clause considered incompatible, to their vital national interests. NEW YORK, February 8.
The constitution or the League organisation will require, before declaration, that any nation must have a. popular expression on the question of peace or war.
Japan remains a bystander in the League and on the Commission Conferences. She has no c participated in the discussion affecting J'.uiopc and Near East.
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