Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-01-16
BOURGEOIS MADE CHAIRMAN
OF WORLD LEAGUE; AMERICA
WAS NOT REPRESENTED
First Official Act Of League
Council Was Naming Com
mission to Act on Frontiers Of
the Sarre Basin.


PARIS, Jan. 16:-Representatives
of France. Great Britain, italy,
Greece, Belgium, Spain, Japan,
and Brazil members of the
council of the League of Nations,
met In the "clock room" of the
French foreign office at 10 o'clock
this morning for the first meeting in
the history of the league The coun-
Gil organized at 1890 o'clock by
electing Leon Bourgeois chairman
and confirming the choice of Sir
Erich Drummond, of Great Britain.
as general secretary.
The first official act of the league
council was the appointment of a
commission to trace upon the spot
the frontiers of the territory of the
Sarre Basin.
All the members Of the council
called for by the covenant of the
league, with the exception of the
were present when M. Bourgeois
called the meeting to order.
Premier Venizelos, without rising,
opened une proceedings by nominal
ing Bourgeois 10: = trman. Lord
Curzon seconded the nomination anu
NJ. Bourgeois was unanimously elect
ed. M. Bourgeois IN his speech of
acceptance predicted that January
16, 1920. would go down in history
world. The chairman spoke briefly
as follows:
THE task of presiding at this meet
ing and inaugurating this great inter-
nationa! institution should have fallen
to President Wilson. We respect the
reason that still delays final decision
by our friends in Wash ngton, but
fhn chair difHo111tia e
will soon be overcome and that a
representative of the great American
republic will occupy the place await
ing him among us. The work OF the
council will then assume definite char
Rcter and will have that particular
force to be associated with our work.
January 16, 1920, will go down In
history as the date Of the birth of a
new world. Decisions to be reached
today viii be in the name of all ma
tions adhering to the covenant of the
League. 1t will be the first decree OF
all nations, leaguing themselves to-
gether for the first time in the world
TO substitute right for might.
but the organization of the League
of Nat ons will not be complete until
the assemblies Of all the states meet
Speaking for Great Britain. Lord
Curzon sad:
"On behalf of the British empire ]
desire to express the loyalty of my
government and external dominions
of the British crown to the spirit un-
derlying the covenant of the League
: of Nations. 1t is our intention by ev-
cry means in our power to insure It's
practical efficiency. 1t Is our firm be-
lief that through the instrumental ity
alone we can hope to insure that such
misery that the world has experienced
during the past five years shall no,
be repeated and that new era ol
international relationship shall
Hawn.
..The League Of Nations is an ex-
preston of universal desire for sanel
methods Of regulating affairs of man
kind and provides machinery by
which practical effect may be given
the pr:ncip' es of international friend
ship and good understanding. Inc
success of the labors of the peace
council Is a good augury for the fu-
ture of the League of Nations. For
the first time an attempt was made
to bring together under the auspices
of the league representatives OF gov
ernmentS employees and labor, and ar
advance exceeding the results of the
entire work OF the previous quarter
of a century has been made in the
field of international action on indus
trial question"
Signor Ferraris on behalf of italy
said that his nation was glad to re-
spond to the invitation of the Presi-
dent and the great American people
He mentioned the skepticism amidst
which the league was born and said
this fact fact to be neither exag-
gerated or ignored.
Signor Ferraris. stated that among
the duties of the league would be to
give attention to the high cost of liv-
ing and the state of international
finance.
The council oftthe League of Ma
tions received the first formal pro-
test to be presented to it almost be-
fore It came into being with today's
initial session. The protest was from
the envoys Of the elected government
Of the Irish Republic" against ''the
unreal English simulacre of an inter-
natfonal league Of peace."
during the meeting of the council. but
respondents after they left the for
"Ouaklaigh Duffy" It registered OBJ.
Nations" and declared the League to
secure and perpetuate English here-
mony throughout both hemispheres. .
The protest insisted that the league
authority and sanction and declares
indignation and reputation of It,"
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