LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

COUNCIL REORGANISATION. GERMANY’S QUESTIONS. CLEARING THE GROUND. PARIS, April 2. Germany is 1 attempting to clear the ground for tho reorganisation of the League of Nations Council and her admission to it in September. The German Ambassador, Herr Von Hoesch, called on the Premier, M. Briand, and questioned him in the name of the German Government on tho following points;— (1) What is likely to be the attitude of France towards the candidature of Spain and Brazil? (2) How the commission to study the proposal for extension of the Council will be composed. (3) What will bo the exact status of tho German delegates invited to participate in tho commission? it is understood that similar queries will be addressed to other permanent members of the Council. —A. and N.Z. cable. GENEVA CRISIS. NOT YET OVERCOME. BERLIN, April 3. . Speaking at Annaberg, Dr. Stresemann, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that Cabinet’s opportunist pacifism was truer to Bismarck’s real politik than the dithyrambics and sabro rattlings of the modern Nationalists. There was no disguising that the Genevan crisis had not yet been overcome. Whether Germany would find her way back to Geneva depended on whether the Locarno advocates succeeded in clearing a path such as Germany was prepared to tread.

Well informed people understand that Dr. Streseniann is inquiring into the scope of the proposed inquiry into the League Council’s constitution, also that he has indicated that Germany is of opinion that permanent seats should be reserved for great Powers, and that non-permanent seats should be constantly changed with due consideration to the claims of non-Euro-peans.—A. and N.Z. cable.