GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE

Evening Star, Issue 19352, 11 September 1926, Page 6

GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE

DELEGATES TAKE SEATS WELCOMED BY .PRESIDENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, GENEVA, September 9. (Received September 11, at 1.30 a.m.) The German delegates took their seats in tho Assembly. M. Nintchich welcomed them, and Dr Strcsemaim replied. THE LOCARNO PACT. GENEVA, September 9. Dr Stresomann, in an interview, emphasised that with Germany's entry to the League the Locarno agreements became operative. He added that the success of tho Locarno Pact proved that co-operation and good faith were essential to the reconstruction 01. Europe in which Germany was ready to assist. THE ASSEMBLY’S PRESIDENT. Tho newly-elected President of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Dr Momtshilo Nintchitch, is the son of the former progressive Serbian Minister of Justice, Aron Nintchitch. He was born at Belgrade in June, 1876, and studied law at Belgrade and Paris, graduating at the hriter university. As early at 1903 he was appointed professor of financial science at Belgrade University, and in 1912 be was elected to the Skupshtina (Parliament), of which he has been a_ member ever since. In tho war period lie was appointed Finance Minister in the Radical Government of M. Fnsitch, and after tho establishment of the kingdom of tho Serbs, Croats, and it fell to him to deal with the question of the new currency, which he put on llio basis of one dinar to tour Austrian kronen, but it was left, for his Democratic successor, Dr \ ciikoviu.li, to put his scheme into practice. In the second Protitch Cabinet m the spring of 1920 Dr Nintchitch was Minister of Justice, and in the \csnitcli Government in the autumn of that year Minister ol Trade. In January, 1922, Dr Nintchitch became Foreign Minister in_the Radical-Demo-cratic Coalition Cabinet of M. Pasitcb, and retained that post in tho Governments that followed except that of M. Davidovitch (July November, 1924), in which Dr Mamikon-.Hi i Oemocra •) took charge of foreign affairs. Dr Nintchitch, who even before Ids apappointmeut as Foreign Minister was repeatedly called in to assist most confidential matters, has bad to put. tho relations of Yugoslavia wall tho neighboring States—notably Italy; Rumania, and Bulgaria-—on a. satisfactory footing, and in this be lias been successful. In an effort to contribute to Hie stabilisation of European conditions he lias supported the policy of the Little Entente, and has advocated, though with great caution, the opening of relations with Russia. At Court he is regarded as persona gratissima.