GENEVA DISCUSSIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 9

GENEVA DISCUSSIONS

MAKING LEAGUE FUNCTION

HELP FOR ATTACKED STATES

(British Official .Wireless.)

RUGBY, 2nd March.

In addition to the 44th session of tho League of Nations Council, which opens in Geneva on Monday next, under the presidency of Dr. Stresemann, tho German Foreign Minister, there will be nine different League meetings' during the present month. Of these the most important refers to the question of disarmament.

When the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference meets again on 21st March it will have before it tho whole' of tho work done by its various technical sub-commissions since Juno last, and may thus be able definitely to draw up a programme and fix the date of the International Disarmament Conference. The related, though minor, question of international supervision of private manufacture of armaments will also be dealt with by a special commission, on .which the United States will be' represented. The commission will meet on 14th March to draw up a draft international convention for a conference which is to be summoned by the League in the autumn.

The League's Financial Committee is to study the possibility of establishing a common scheme of financial assistance to a State which has been attacked, and to consider the legal position which would result from enforcing, in peace time, the measures of economic pressure indicated in article. 10 of the Covenant, particularly by maritime blockade. A Committee of the Council will examine the report of the sub-committee which met in London last month, under the chairmanship of Viscount Cecil, to study the kind of preventive action which might usefully be taken by the Council when considering a dispute brought before it.

(Sydney Sun Cable.)

GENEVA, 3rd March. The League of Nations will havo its first meeting under a German chairman when Dr. Stresemann presides at the Council next week.