LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 371, 15 September 1930, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

EVACUATING THE SAAR

HERTZOG’S READ SPEECHES. GENEVA, Sept. 12. The Council passed a resolution in favour of the withdrawal of the forces protecting the railways in the Saar territory within, three months. Herr Curtius expressed satisfaction at the solution of the matter. There was a notable decline in the tone of tho general debate after yesterday’s big guns. The main topic in the lobbies is the Hon. A. Henderson’s astute switching of interest on the problems of disarmament, instead of M. Briand’s European project, which was not mentioned in any of tho morning speeches. General Hertzog, like Sir H. Borden, suffered through uninspiringly reading written speeches. The Germans stirred uneasily and looked daggers when General Hertzog referred particularly to the recent examination of the South-west African mandate had declared that the Mandates Commission had caused very great friction by raising academic questions about the permanency of the mandate and the extent of the mandatory Powers’ sovereignty. Such inquiries should either bo abandoned or restricted to the narrowest limits. South Africa wanted peace and disarmament, provided it was universal.

The League war. most gratified by the Council’s decision to evacuate the Saar by all of tho occupational troops within the period accepted by Germany. This is regarded as a definite achoevement towards a complete ’settlement of the situation, which is only second to the occupation of the Rhineland in the bitterness created in Germany.