POLAND AND LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 65, 14 September 1934, Page 9

POLAND AND LEAGUE

NO MORE COLLABORATION

SYSTEM INADEQUATE

(British Official Wireless.) : ; (Received September 14, 1 p.iji.) RUGBY, September !13. Tlio announcement that Poland, refuses any longer .to collaborate with tlio League's international orgao^ for tlio protection of minorities in .Poland was niado by ..the Polish Foreign; Minister, Colonel Beck, in the League of Nations Assembly today. Colon* iJ Beck protested against the inadequacy of the present system and urged tif:at the League should include in the :agenda for the next Assembly a eompr'Biiensive reconstruction of the existing ..regime on a more durable and -better denned basis, ile suggested that maanwhile a general convention should be:..drafted by a special committee and a conference called before the date of Ahe next Assembly to discuss the whold matter. Meanwhile, he added, Poland would continue to protect her own m inorities. The independence of Poland.' was-pro-claiined on November 9, l_9lßi,' and was recognised in the following; year by the Treaty of, Versailles, '^;hich also made provision for embodying in a further Treaty provisions deWmed necessary to protect the inter Bits of inhabitants who differed from, the majority of the population in I(q nguago or religion. In accordance -vrttii this Minorities Treaty, which .'Was- 'signed later, Poland's minority population cam 6 under the protection of lhe League. ■.■ *./. . •' !