Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-17
LEAGUE OF NATIONS ALREADY HAS MADE CLAN TSTRIDES
OF PROGRESS IN HANDLING INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

(This is the second article from
Milton Bronner, who is studying the
workings of the League of Nations
from non-partisan, independent
standpoint.)
BY MILTON BRONNER
Manager of European Bureau of
Newspaper Enterprise Association.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE League
of Nations has no citizens, but it is
responsible for the well-being of po-
litical, racial, religious and linguis-
tic minorities in Poland, Czecho-
Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, Ru-
mania, and Turkey.
The league has no territory, but
governs the Saar Valley with its
$4,000 people.
The league has no city of its own,
but it governs the important seaport
of Danzig with its 100000 people
and its big trade.
In those three paragraphs is sum-
med up some of the most important
work of the League of Nations. The
matter of protecting the minorities
has not gone very yet, but the gov
ernance of the Saar Valley and Dan
zig is in an advanced state.
The great Saar Valley is tempo
rarily taken away from Germany.
The Saar Basin coal is given to the
French in payment for the Germans
distinctions of French coal fields at
Lens. Fifteen years from now there
will be plebiscite to decide whether
the inhabitants want to be united
to Germany or to France to remain
under a commission named by the
League of Nations.
Commission Rules Saar.
The League of Nations Council
named Victor Rault, of France, N.
de Boch of Saar, Major Lambert of
Belgium, Count Won Moltke-Huitfeldt
of Denmark and A. Waugh of Can
ada as the commission to rule the
territory. They chose the city of
Saarbruck as the capital, and have
issued various orders concerning the
governance of the coal mines, rail-
ways, taxes, etc. They have also held
an election, under which the inhabi-
tants chose their municipal and dis
trict councils.
Danzig, formerly a German city,
has been made free city by the
Treaty of Versailles. 1t is under
the protection of the League of Ma
tons.
The port will be used as an out
let for Poland's trade, as that coun-
try has no seaport of its own. The
situation there is peculiar. The
The town is largely German. The
country around is largely Polish. The
town is necessary to the country and
Poland is necessary to Danzig. The
prosperity of each depends upon the
other and yet there is intense racial
bitterness.
1t was decided to give Danzig
constitution and also to frame treaty
between that city and Poland. The
League of Nations has appointed Sir
Reginald Tower as High Commission
er for Danzig. Upon him have de-
volved the duties of drafting rules
by which an election of delegates
to a constitutional convention were
chosen.
Thanks to the efforts of the
League of Nations, Permanent
Court of international Justice is one
of the strong possibilities of the very
near future.
World High Court Planned.
From June 16 to July "a last some
of the greatest lawyers in the whole
world, named by the Council of the
League of Nations, sat at The Hague
and drew up detailed plans for this
court.
Baron Descamps, Belgian Minister
of State, was chairman of this COM
mission.
Lord Phillimore of England, was
member. He was a Lord Justice
of Appeal for years and at one time
president of the international Law
Association of Loder, a member of
the Court of Cessation of Holland,
represented that country.
Rafael Altamira, a Senator of