President Wilson laid before the Peace Conference last Saturday the
draft Covenant of the League of Nations, drawn up by a Committee representing the five great and nine small Allied Powers. The preamble defines its purpose as " to promote International co-operation and to secure international peace and !security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war,"
and, especially, by " a scrupulous respect for all Treaty obli- gations." The machinery of the League is to consist of is body of Delegates, three from each Power wills one vote, meeting at stated intervals ; of an Executive Council, of nominees of the five great Allies and four other Powers, meeting at least once a year ; and of a permanent Secretariat, appointed by the Executive Council. The seat of the League is not yet named. A new member may be admitted with the approval of two- thirds of the States forming the League, if, and if only, it gives "effective guarantees of its sincere intention to observe its international obligations" to conform to the wiebes of the Leagun in regard to armaments. Germany, it is clear, will not be admitted until she has shown a real change of heart.
