Excerpt from Draft Convention for League of Nations: By Group American Jurists and Publicists Officially committed themselves in their masterly reply to President Wil son January 10, 1917 to the principle of a league of nations to discourage fu ture wars, manifestly the next important step was to find out what kind of a league they would accept. Now, the most di rect way in which to attack that problem is to frame an actual Draft Convention for their consideration. With this ob ject in View a private Study Group, com posed of American jurists and publicists, examined the subject at ten meetings of the principal committee, supplemented by serious study by sub-committees, through the period of a year. It is thought useful to give out the results of their labours at this time. The Draft Convention is based on the program of the League to Enforce Peace, the prin cipal aim of which is to compel inquiry before nations are allowed to go to war. The States of the League agree to make. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.