LAST EDITION Star Office, 2 p.m. UNIVERSAL PEACE

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3737, 24 March 1919, Page 3

LAST EDITION Star Office, 2 p.m. UNIVERSAL PEACE

J LORD ROBERT CECIL EXPLAINS

TUB LEAGUE COVENANT AND

PEACE,

AN APPEAL TO AMERICA

iA'As..N.X. Cnblo Association.)

" (Received March 24, 8.40 a.m.)

London, Match 18

Lord Robert Cecil, addressing the Press Delegation, added that scarcely a day passed in. the Peace negotiations without tho League of Nations cropping up. If tho League of Nations was an essential element, in the pacification of the world, the sooner it was got together the better. Ho looked with great fear on any attempt at postponing its operation. He did not'think the inclusion of the League Covenant would involve any delay in the Peace Preliminary. A definite, concrete covenant had already produced some ambiguities .which could be remedied. He did aiot believe any prolonged consideration would remove all the ambiguities from tho document. That the League Covenant should form -part of the Peace Preliminary was tho view of the British Government. He believed the Monroe Doctrine would be strengthened by a League of Nations. The war had left the United States in a position of enormous power, comparable with that of England after the Napoleonic wars. A great responsibility lay with America. She could not afford to say she would refuse to interest herself in what goes on in the world without being false to her responsibilities.' There had been some criticism over the question of representation on the League, but the Dominions desired representation in order to properly bring forward matters of importance to them rather than to have them voiced by the British Govern nent. AGAINST THE LEAGUE. THE FIRST AMERICAN COURIER, TO SAIL IN A FEW DAYS. (Received March 24, 9.20 a.m.) Washington, March 19. The first Anti-Leaguo of Nations courier leaves" for Europe in a few days. AMERICA TO JAPAN. PRESIDENT WILSON EXPLAINS. (Received March 24, 1 p.m.) Paris, March 19. President Wilson had 'a conference with Viscount Matsui, the Japanese delegate to tho Peace Conference. The President told Viscount Matsui that it was impossible for the League of .Nations to give tho Japanese equal rights of immigration with the Circassians . ' Viscount Matsui said that Japan would not delay adoption of the League of Nations by insisting on equal racial rights in the meantime.