Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
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W0uM RuleLeague W1th
Her Six V0tey Is Exploded

Azerbaijan for membership. Cecil
fought the gag and not only won
question whatever, leaving to the
assembly the decision as to Wheth-
er it shall be taken up.
Under this rule any delegate could
propose admission of Germany and
of her status with England, which
is virtually running the country.
The Chinese could bring up Shan
tung and Manchurian questions
without notice and appeal to the
assembly for action.
Ceci1's Fight for Publicity
Cecil also made the fight for open
committee sessions, passionately
pointing out that the league could
exist only SO long as it had the opin-
ion of the world behind it. The
only way, he said, to obtain the
backing of world opinion was by
taking the world into it's confidence
and getting rid Of secret diplomacy.
He forced from the French group
concession that, the committees
be published.
Tittoni, of Italy, and Branting, of
Sweden, fought for and won rulings
to safeguard the full rights of the
right of full expression by small
nations as well as powers.
Tittoni's fight increased and made
more democratic the election of COM
mittee officers, and Branting back
ed up this fight with a victory for
the. secret ballot on all votes on in
dlVlduals, which guards against any
possible intimidation.
-, Briefly, the American hemisphere,
through the Latin-American block,
hn tnc csiy rr14 h II
Of power. displayed in the session to
date, and Cecil, Tittoni and Bran
ting have successfully led the fight
Tor the kind of things the United
States would advocate if a member
Carefully Devised Plan
The sJapanese came to this first
session of League of Nations assem-
bly, with the evident idea of Great
ing a great impression. They have
they hoped
The impression created is that, of
all the delegations, the japanese
seems to be under the most general
suspicion as to it's motive. This is
not because of any action taken up
| to now but because of the quite gen
eral fear that the Japs are prepared
to raise very embarrassing questions
which might cause dissension in the
assembly before the assembly is old
enough to absorb any sort of shock
Exactly what the Japanese are up
to even the best-informed students
Of Japanese diplomatic policy are
agreed that their attempt to take
and hold the center of the stage at
Geneva is part of a carefully devised
plan, by the Japanese, to accomplish
some selfish purpose.
Japs Storm Geneva
1t Is estimated that the Japanese
have two or three times as many
people here as has any other nation.
/ In addition TO the three delegates
who sit in the assembly they have
dozens of minor officials and news
paper correspondents from every Sec
ton of Japan. Of course every one
! of the latter is under direct inf1u-
ence of his government and part of
the general Japanese plan, what
ever it may be.
| Japanese are everywhere. in fact
/ they have quite taken possession of
the city.
Besides the hotel which they en-
tirely occupy as their general hea /
quarters, every other hotel accommo-
dates number of them.
| Every building that houses a Japa-
nose displays Japanese flag, al
ways the biggest flag on the build
| ing.
| AuIOmOplleS UlueF japanese CHAR
ter for the duration Of the confer
ence, each one flying at least one
Japanese flag, fairly block traffic at
con "ested points.
| One cannot walk a block Or step
| into a cafe without meeting one or
a group of correctly dressed sphinx
| faced little brown men who have
come half way around the world for
some purpose which obviously can
not be explained by their desire to
| further world peace
At least, if this is their only pur-
lpCse, no one here gives them credit.
Everyone Wonders
One explanation is that their adj
mission to the Lea que of Nations on
an equality with the white races has
gone to their heads and affected
them in the same way that newly
gotten riches often affects the white
man.
Another is that by this great dis
play they hope to impress all the
other ASiatic people with their in
tention to dominate the far east.
A more widely held view is that
the Japanese are determined that
nothing shall be done by the assem-
lbly to force them to comply with
their promise, given at Paris, to give
Shantung back to China, and that if
this question is raised in the as
senbly, rather than have any action
taken, they will try to break up' the
show by introducing the explosive
subject of race equality.