THE LEAGUE COUNCIL
AMBASSADORS’ DECISIONS. NOT BOUND TO ENDORSE. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 14. Hitherto it has been believed that the League Council was automatically bound to endorse and enforce the decisions of the Ambassadors’ Conference, but this view has been negatived by the committee of jurists appointed by the League Council to consider the question. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent regards the ruling as especially fortunate inasmuch as the council will be able to disclaim responsibility for the ambassadors’ Vilna decision. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Before the trouble between Poland and Lithuania was settled at Geneva Lithuania declared that she had bf~n at war with Poland since General Zeligowski seized Vilna in 1920. Lithuania appealed to. the League, which referred the matter to the Council of Ambassadors, who, in 1923, decided in favour of Poland. Lithuania remained unreconciled, and continuous disputes arose from other causes, such as the educational rights of Lithuan-ian-speaking people in Poland and Polishspeaking people in Lithuania.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20283, 16 December 1927, Page 11
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