LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
COUNCIL IN SESSION.
REPORT ON SECURITY.
AMERICAN NOTE TO FRANCE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received March 6. 10.50 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. GENEVA, March 6. The 49th meeting of the Council of the League of Nations opened yesterday. It was decided to ask for information concerning the national status of the inhabitants of mandated territories flrom. the mandatory Powers. It was announced that questions regarding Danzig had been withdrawn from the agenda because the parties interested were negotiating direct.
Tbe day was largely devoted to preliminary discussions. The "most definite event was the production by the Committee on Arbitration and Security of a draft of a model treaty for the judicial settlement of disputes by arbitration and conciliation. It consisted of 38 articles. Lord Cushendun (Britain), in a lengthy explanation, intimated that Britain could not accept the optional clause in regard to submitting disputes to the International Court of Justice. France is so far the only great Power to have signed the optional clause.
There has been considerable comment in League circles on the Note from the United States to France. The general impression is that America's proposals need elucidation. When they are examined closely they do not reveal any material difference from the League's Convenant. It is freely stated that the United States could work more effectively for world peace by joining the League. Prominent members of the Council also express the opinion that the peace of Europe would be on a safer basis if Signor Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, could be induced to take a personal part in the work of the League. The Council's hopes that the first General Disarmament Conference would be held this year have been shattered, as it is now announced that all the resolutions adopted by the Committee on Arbitration and Security will be subject to approval by the Assembly of the League, and as the Assembly only meets in September a disarmament conference will be impossible before 1929.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19889, 7 March 1928, Page 11
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