PROTECTION OF MINORITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 September 1921, Page 5

PROTECTION OF MINORITIES.

PROPOSED COMMISSION

UK CABLE—PBEBB ASSOCIATION-CCMPYMGHT! IGENEVA, Sept. 12. At the League of Nations meeting Professor Gilbert Murray moved two proposals. Th© first, significantly seconded b* fierr Mensdorff (Austria), Vm that in order to effectively carry •but the duties of the League, in guaranteeing protection to minorities in 'certain Sfetes, the Council he invited to form a permanent commission to 'consider and report upon complaints ■addressed to the League, and where it was n f <SCessary to make inquiry on the spot. fhe second motion provided that the subject of a national home for the Armenians, as promised by the Supreme Council in March, be referred to & commission of six for consideration. ,-MTi Sastri said mxsch as India would jwcome disarmament, it was very doubtful how far it can oome in on a general scheme. India's troubles emanated from Russia. Afghanistan, and Turkey, who were all outside the league. He complained that India, though she had ratified the Washington labour convention, was denied representation on fhe bureau of the international labour office on the ground that die was not amonpr^heereat indußtrial •rowers of the world; also, while India Wm under the new scheme she was repay over six per "cent, of the coit of the Secretariat, but had only one solitary representative among 351 Members.