THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
M. VENIZELOS' VIEWS. SCOPE OF ITS OPERATIONS. LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE POWERS. PROPOSAL FAVOURED IN GERMANY NECESSARY FOR HER SALVATION. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. The Chicago News' Paris correspondent interviewed M. Venizelos, who said: "We must have a League of Nations. The question of the freedom of the seas could be settled if assurances were given the British that the right of blockade will be maintained only against opponents of the laws of the League of Nations. There may be an international fleet, and I favour that. The league should have legislative, Judicial and executive power. If a league is formed I assume that secret treaties will be abrogated. When the Allied Council at Versailles agreed to Mr Wilson's 1-i points all secret treaties were abrogated automatically." It is considered that M. Venizelos referred to the Treaty of London, promising Italy Adriatic lands if she woul'd join the Allies. The United Press' Berlin correspondent interviewed Count Bernstorff, the ex-German Ambassador at Washington, who said that the German people were overwhelmingly aware that the salvation of Germany and of the entire world lies in a League of Nations on the prin- x ciples laid down by Mr Wilson. Men prominent in the German Government and in all circles, including myself, Herr Haase, Herr Ebert and Prince Max of Baden, have formed a German league of nations society to further the formation of such a league.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1153, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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