LEAGUE COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1930, Page 9

LEAGUE COUNCIL

THE TARIFF TETJCE

COVENANT AND PACT \ British Official Wireless. • . > (Received. Bth January, 11 a.m.) " BUGBY, 7th January. ' Mi. A. Henderson, Foreign Secretary, leaves London next Friday to represent Great Britain at the session of th« League of Nations Council, which opens -at Geneva on the following Monday. Great Britain will be specially; interested in tho outcome of a proposal made on her behalf to the League Assembly last September that certain articles of the League Covenant, -which do not at present definitely rule out ■war in all circumstances, should be amended in order to bring them into' lino with tho Kellogg Pact. One of the items on the ngcmla is the appointment of a committee ot eleven persons to draft a report on the amendanents necessary. Another item of particular interest to this country relates to the proposal made last, September by Mr. William Graham, president of the Board of Trade, for an international tariff truce for two years pending an agreement of a general reduction of tariffs. Governments were asked to state their views on this proposal before the end of 1929 and on the strength of those replies which, have been received the Council has to decide whether a conference should be held at the earliest possible moment. There will also be a discussion on the report of the Permanent. Mandates Commission containing the observations of the Commission on, the administration of British mandates for Iraq and tho Cameroous. This report will' also give tho view of the Mandates Commission on the proposal forwarded to it by the British Government last November for the immediate appointment of -a commission to settle finally the respective claims of the Jews and Moslems to the Wailing Wall at Jerusalem. ' .