LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 9 January 1930, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

OUTLAWRY OF WAR COVENANT AMENDMENT PEACE PACT OBJECTIVE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Jan. 7. Mr A. Henderson, Foreign Secretary, leaves London next Friday to represent Great Britain at the session of the League of Nations Council, which opens at Genera on the folowmg Monday. Great Britain will Jbe specially interested in the outcome of the proposal made on her behalf at 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 lie amended In order to bring them into line with the Kellogg Pact. One of the items on the agendai is the appointment of a committee of 11 persons to draft a report on amendments necessary. Another item, of particular interest to Britain relates to a proposal! made last September by the At. Hon. W. Graham, president of the Board of Trade, for an international tariff truce for two years, pending an agreement for the general redemption of tariffs. Governments are asked to state their views on this proposal before the end of 1.929, and on the strength: of those replies which have been received the council lias 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 on the commission on the administration of the British Mandates for Iraq and the Caeroons. This report ". ill also give the view of the Mandates Commission on the proposal forwarded to it bv the British Government Last November for the immediate appointment of a commission to settle finally the respective claims of Jews and Moslems to tills wailing Avail at Jerusalem.