Its Organization and Its Aims (Contributed.)
The first meeting of the Executive Council ut the League of Nations took place on the moming of friday, January 2é, at tte Mimstry of Foreign Affairs, in Paris, M. Leon Bourgeois presided. On is right Sat Lord Curzon (Great Britain), Mr. Matsui (Japan), Senhor de Cunha (Brazil), and M. Venizelos (Greece), and on his leit Signor Ferraris (Italy), M. Hymaus (Belgium) and Senor Quinones da Leon (Spain), The United States was not represented, not having yet ratified the Peace Treaty Yn the following article our correspondent sets out what the League aims at i answers some of the objections Without, necessarily sharing his views, it only right that they should What does the average man think of it? What does he know about it? Has he had the time, or the inclination, or the opportunity to study the organization of the League of Nations?
These and other questions must be answered fairly and fully before any honest man has the right to gave an opinion upon so vital an organization as the League represents, And it is with no little hope of enlisting sympathy in favour of giving the League a "sporting chance," before condemning it unheard, and almost unknown, that these lines are written.
Let an endeavour be made first of all to state plainly but briefly what the Covenant of the League of Nations stands for. This is' what one of its staunchest supporters Professor Gilbert Murray has written of it.
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