Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-11-20
Open DIplomacy Urged.

Wy Associated Press.
GENEVA, Nov. Mandates, open
diplomacy and the admission ~ former
enemy states to the League ~ Nations
furnished todny's material for discus.
sion IN the assembly of the League Of
Nations.
For the first time the word "rev..
sion" was pronounced In connection
with article eighteen of the covenant
of the league which provides for tn
registration ~ treaties ar international
engagements.
For the first time. also. the viewpoint
~ labor, ~ regards the league was pro
sented bv George Nicoll Barnes ~ III"
British delegation. who gained applause
when he declared that general peace "
impossible untll We have indusirl a
peace aud industrial peace In impossible
untll labor gets its full share Of the
product NJ its own effort"
Twice again the admission of former
enemy states into the league was ad.
vocatcd. Labor was quoted by Mr..
Barnes m IN n large majority demand.
ing H. There now have been repre-.
srntcd In the demands for the admls.
sion of the former enemy states. South
Africa. Great Britain. Switzerland, Ar
gentlnc and Scandinavia.
Not 90 Propose Election.
Lord Robert Cecil of the British dele.
gatlon has said that he will not propose
| the election pf Germany 10 the league
and Hnnorio pueyrredon. head ~ th'
Argentine delegation. who has spoken
strongly In favor ~ Germany coming
In. declares that he win not nominate
| her. Neither will the Dutch or Swedish
| delegations, who are supposed Ia be Oer
many's strongest supporters. propos
| her admission tu the league. notylth
| standing the fact that sentiment favOra
bile TO her membership crops out IN
every debate.
A protest by Germany against tha
manner of distribution of mandates foI
her colonies today created n marked i'm
| precision In the assembly, particularly
on account Of the fact that II was al
dressed 10 the assembly. instead of the
council ~ the League of Nations.
German Attitude.
Germany consistently has maintained
the attitude that the council of th'
league does not possess sufficient au
| thorlty to deal with such questions
since n majority of Its representative
form group ~ belligerents and that
the assembly alone is representative ~
the entire league. and therefore compe
tent 60 deal with the question
Giuseppe Motta. president 81 switzcr
| land and head ~ the Swiss delegation
IN n speech today held that the council
and the assembly were two separate AM
independent organs. and II IN probah''
that the committee on general organlza
tinn viii be- called upon To solve IN,
| problem.
League of Nations
~ Motta'S appeal for the most open
diplomacy through the publication oi
treaties made n great impression ON
the assembly. he made on error In
details however. when he said that only
nine treaties had been registered. five
~ (which were Swiss. Fifty five
treaties have been registered hut nine
uf them only thus FAR have been pub
lishcd. az the fifiy five nine are Ger
man. including the treaty ~ Rres,
I.itnysk and the treaty with Lctyin.
u is not expected In league circles
that treaties such ns the Franco Bel
gian military understanding win h. IN
tcgfaly registered, since their defcn
sl,c value largely depends ON secrecy