LEAGUE MEETS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18634, 8 March 1926, Page 9

LEAGUE MEETS.

GERMAN ADMISSION. ;• A I oNG-PRAWN PROCESS. 1 ' .'.-TT-iBEBS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) W iS D N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) '' (Received March 7th, 5.5 p.m.) A " LONDON, March 6. ft appear ß that the admission of ;*L 4n y to the League .will be a longprocess. First there will be the fjyft to membership, and thereafter rkn to a permanent seat on the rLal, thus involving a succession S meetings of the Council and the i mbly at which the Germans will Tthe Tveek t^ie Germans sit 1 the League table, thus affording ' for informal conversations. • least six Prime Ministers will be »t Geneva, gr Joseph Cook, Mr Casey, and the *e* Ze»l® nd€rs ' sir «* ames A,len an<l u r Koowles, went to Geneva to-day. jjU Chamber, after meeting other jflijn&rdelegates, will meet the DoUinons' delegates. for the purpose of stimulating the 'met#! ol * understood that Sir jkeph Cook and Sir James Allen been instructed to co-operate •a gr Austen Chamberlain in conjgjon with the immediate admission to a permanent seat on Council, but they are not comjjjSjjig themselves on contentious. Jljtlons such as the enlargement of the admission of Poland, i, or Brazil, until they have rev {tirei- further instructions. ' Br. Stresoroann, in the course of an I jgterview by Mr Drummond Hay, the : jjrxegpondent of the "Daily Express," # gift eve of departing for Geneva, (lid the responsibility for preventing to the League on the occasion : rf'ftrtfany's entry must be borne in 'tfjoi f»ith by the so-called Locarno He' President, General Primo-de ■ Rir&a,, in an interview in Madrid, aid:'"l consider it is not only right flin tfcA national interests of Spain to -have * permanent seat on the League, the interests of the world, Spain genuinely represents the f-fataM conciliatory attitude in pro,which fall to the League for criticism. ' / 'i A- OWPTEI'S TBLEOBAMB.) I - |p., LONDON, March 5. Ikx a* comparative smallness of the ment vote at the end of the in the Souse of Commons on Mtion of permanent seats on incil of the League of Nations buted more to the belief that position will not force a divil *tha evo of Sir Austen Cham's departure for Geneva, than desire on the part of the Conres to abstain from voting, i&servatjve voted against the ment. technical reasons neither of the motions put down by both of tiva Opposition was moved. ' Theto' '«*' still some dissatisfaction amctyj %>,&wervatives with the position,JOdtoaervative criticism is „■ directed agaiwi Britain being in any way tiid to; Spain. AH parties .share dislike for anything approaching entanglement, expressed in Sir : AnSten'j opposition ■ to' any rival tjcapps. jj|V." : .'v- x 17 . SWEDISH POLICY. IjftWftiWAK. ATO; N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) |L,. (Seieived March 7th, 5.8 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, March 6. fefceadefr 1 of all parties emphatically statqmeiit o£ M. linden, |p#sgn-Mii)jgt6r, on the eve of his-go* 1 Geneva that the Swedish deleto thfc League Assembly would |jjj|gg(te any proposal to reorganise the at the March session, apart jj|||gi<,:tlie -admission of Germany. iGEMENT FAVOURED. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIiTIO.V.) id March 7th, 5.5 p.m.) VIENNA, March 6. ovakia favdurs enlarging whip of the League Council ;o the Foreign Minister, M. 1 was interviewed here. He a treaty with Hungary, in j spirit, should noi be diffiICEPS HANDS TIED. 4m N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) id March 7th, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON,' March 6. en Chamberlain and other iave departed for Geneva, accompanying him from ttend the preliminary conbut not to participate in 1 deliberation, i is taking up the standpoint the Chamber has bee» deis unable to pledge the