SPAIN’S POLICY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 September 1926, Page 5

SPAIN’S POLICY

AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS

WANTS PERMANENT SEAT

CHIEF ITEM OF INTEREST

at CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Aug. SC. Following Spain’s demand for a. decision regarding a .permanent sear being accorded her in the Council of the League of Nations, Viscount Cecil moved that the Council should first consider the allocation of non-perman-ent seats. According M. Fromageot (the French delegate) moved an amendment designed to smooth the way for Poland, and even Spain, to the effect that out of the occupants of the nine elective seats on the Council provided under Viscount Cecil’s plan, three would be eligible, for re-election on the expiry of the prescribed term of three years, and that the coming assembly should decide which seats should be so re-eligible. This amendment was adopted, with the evident hope that Poland and Spain would, be two out of the three eligibles, and be thus pacified. Whether the rather transparent manoeuvre will succeed remains to be seen. The Morning Post’s Geneva correspondent says, he is informed that if Britain and France agree to Spain s Tangier aspirations she will forego her request for a 1 permanent seat on the League Council, hut if she is refused both requests she will withdraw from the League. All the dispatches from Geneva concentrate on Spain’s policy The chief Spanish delegate, Senor Palacios, today asked the commission dealing with the allocation of seats on the Council to give Spain a permanent seat, adding that he desired a prompt reply. At Viscount Cecil’s suggestion, however, a general debate on tlie reorganisation of 'the Council was initiated, and tins went on throughout the day. Meanwhile the British, French, German and Polish representatives are conferring privately, while the Spaniards have gone to Madrid to .seek final instructions „ , , , ' While Brazil sent out a formal letter of farewell to the League, yet Senor Mellofranco is remaining at Geneva as a sort of official Brazilian observer. From this a mild hope of Brazil remaining in the League is rekindled. The Daily Express special correspondent savs the consensus of opinion is that Spain will withdraw from .the League, but Italy’s attitude remains a mystery, of which Tangier is the kernel.