19 APRIL 1919, page 1

The Declaration About The Monroe Doctrine Is Of Course A

direct response to Republican criticisms in the United States. Personally we are delighted that a Doctrine which has served the world so well in the past should be maintained.......

News Of The Week.

T HE amended Covenant of the League of Nations was pub- lished in the papers of Monday. As regards the Council of the League, a provision has been introduced that " the number......

Lord Robert Cecil, Who Is Understood To Be The Chief

author of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations, stated in an interview this week that the French amendments were set aside as impracticable. The French had proposed that......

M. Clemencenu Broke Silence On Sunday Last To Assure A

Radical-Socialist deputation that the secret Council of Four had settled the questions of reparation end of the Saar Valley on the lines which the deputation had suggested to......

We Thoroughly Agree That The Time Has Come To Experiment

with a League of Nations, and indeed the principle is now so inextricably mixed up with the Peace Treaty that it would probably be quite impossible to separate the two things.......

The German Plenipotentiaries Are To Be Invited To...

April 25th, and the contrast between their mission now and the presence of their fathers in Versailles half-a-century ago is hardly likely to be missed by the unwilling guests......

Another Modification In The Covenant Affects The...

amendments. In the original draft amendments to the Covenant could be brought about only by a unanimous vote of the Council and by a three-fourths majority of the other States.......

It Also Gives The United States The Right Of Direct

control of such places as San Domingo and Hayti, where American temps were landed after the beginning of the war with Germany. 01 course Great Britain has no reproofs to fear......

The Editor Cannot Accept Responsibility For Any Articles...

submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beat to return contributions in case of rejection.......