THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19783, 5 March 1927, Page 7

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

IMPORTANT MATTERS DISARMAMENT DISCUSSION MEETING AT GENEVA SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN TO ATTEND [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] RUGBY, March 3. Sir Austen Chamberlain will leave London on Saturday to attend the League of Nations meeting, which opens on Monday at Geneva. In addition to the 44th session of the Council, which opens on Monday, under the presidency of Dr. Stressmann, the German Foreign Minister, there will be nine different League meetings during the present month. Of these tho most important refers to tho question of disarmament. When the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference meets again on March 21, it will have before it the whole of tho work done by various technical sub-commissions since June last, and may thus be able definitely to draw up a programme and fix the date of the International Disarmament Conference. The related, though minor, question of international supervision of private manufacture of armaments will also be dealt with by a special commission, on which the United States will be represented. The commission will meet on March 14 tc draw up a draft international convention for a conference which is to be summoned by the League in the autumn. Tho League’s Financial Committee is to study the possibility of establishing a common scheme of financial assistance to a state which has been attacked ,and to consider the legal position which would result from enforcing in peace time the measures of economic pressure inticated in Article 16 of the Covenant, particularly by maritime blockade. A committee of the Council will examine the report of the sub-committee which met in London last month under the chairmanship of Viscount Cecil, to study the kind*of preventive action which might usefully be taken by the Council when considering a dispute brought before it.