PARLIAMENTARY UNION

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY UNION

, 4 DECISION REGARDING LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, WASHINGTON October 2. The council of the Interparliamentary Union decided that the union would not appeal to the United States to join the League of Nations, ask the League to revise its covenant, or espouse the adoption of a world language.—Rente*.

A SOLEMN WARNING. PRESERVATION OF PEACE. WASHINGTON, October 3. A solemn warning that “controversies and quarrels between nations are certain to come,” and “mere agreements not to have these things happen would be futile,” was sounded by Mr Elihu Root in a paper read before the Interparliamentary Conference on Saturday by Mr Bnrton, a member of the House of Representatives. Ho said that the Permanent Court of Intermix tional Justice, the League of Nations, and The Hague Tribunal were three institutions still in their infancy which “would facilitate the preservation of peace to a degree never before attained.” He said: “The simple met of their existence is already changing the way in which mankind thinks and feels about the disposition of international controversy without war,” adding; “We have reached a point where war cannot bo 'successfully carried on unless, it gratifies the feelings of the great body of the people of the country.” After reading Air Root’s paper, Mr Burton himself addressed the delegates, declaring that the codification of international law would make possible a more ready adjustment of the controversies between nations,”—Reuter. REDUCTION OP ARMAMENTS. IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS. WASHINGTON, October 3. (Received October 5, at 9.55 arm.) Three resolutions clearing the way for the Interparliamentary Union to consider the question of reduction of armaments at Monday’s session were passed on Saturday night. A resolution drafted by Air Elihu Root expressed appreciation of the work of the League of Nations and the Pan-American union on codification, and urged M a general and constructive plan for such codification based on the progress made during recent years with a view to defining the fundamental conditions of a regime of peace to be instituted between the nations.” The second resolution was introduced by Senator Fontaine, of Belgium, and provided for: “The declaration for rights and duties of the nations,” which “would prove a powerful factor in promoting amongst them a sense of order, of international justice, and of responsibility.” AI. V. V. Pella, of the Rumanian delegation, introduced the third resolution, which would create a permanent committee of the committee on judicial questions, and “undertake the study of all social, political, economic, and moral causes of wars of aggression, and find practical .solutions for the prevention of that crime.”—Reuter.