Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-21
HY MILTON

Manager of European Bureau OF
Newspaper Enterprise Association.
LONDON, Sept. 21.-The League
of Nations has no citizens. but It Is
responsible for the well-being of
political. racial, religious and ling
uistic minorities in Poland. Csecho-
Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, Ru-
mania, and Turkey.
The League has no territory, but
1t governs the Saar Valley with It's
$4,000 people.
The League has no city Of its own.
but It governs the important seaport
of Danzig with its 1000 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 far yet. but the
governance of the Saar Valley and
Danzig is in an advanced state.
The great Saar Valley is temper
arily taken away from Gsrany. The
Saar Basin coal is given to the
French in payment for the Germans
destruction of French coal fields at
Lens. Fifteen years from now there
will be a plebiscite to/decide wheth-
er the Inhabitants want to be united
to Germany or France or remain un-
der a commission named by the Lea
que OF Nations.
Commission Rules Saar.
The League of Nations Council
named Victor Rault of France, M.
de Boch of Saar, Major Lambert of
Belgium, Count FOL Moltke-Huit-
feldt of Denmark and A. Waugh of
Canada as the commission to rule
the territory. They chose the city of
Saarbruck as the capital, and have
various orders concerning the
g~overnance of the coal mines, rail-
ways, taxes, etc. They have also held
an elecuon, under which the inhabi-
tants chose their municipal and dis
trict councils.
Danzig, formerly a German city,
has been made a free city, by the
of Versailles. 1t Is under the
protection of the League of Nations.
The port will be used as an outlet
for Poland's trade, as that country
has no seaport of its own. The
situation there is peculiar. The town
Is largely German. The country
around is largely Polish. The town
is necessary to the country and Po-
land 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 a
constitution and also to frame a
treaty between that city and Poland.
The League of Nations has appoint
ed Sir Reginald Tower as High Conn
missioner for Danzig. Upon him
have devolved the duties of draft
rules by which an election Of
delegates to a constitutional conven-
ton were chosen.
Thanks to the efforts of the Lea
que of Nations, a Permanent Court
Of International Justice is one of the
strong possibilities Of the very near
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 minis
ter of state, was the chairman of
this commission.
Lord Phillimore of England was
a 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 hal country.
Rafael Altamira, a senator or
Spain and professor of law at Mad
rid University, represented his coun-
try.
America. was represented by
Elihu Root, former secretary of
state and a member of the Perma-
nent Court of Arbitration at The
Hague.