Arizona republican., 1920-12-19
DELEGATES FEEL.
 SATISFIED WITH. WORK IF GENEVA LEAGUE MEETING
First Assembly. Closes In Burst Of Eloquence; An other Encounter Between British Delegates
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GENEVA, Dec. 1S.-The first meet ing of the league of nations assembly closed this evening in a burst of elo- quence in a rather agitated debate.
 In farewell speeches Paul Hymans, president of the assembly, and Dr. Giuseppe Motta, president of Switzer land, declared the first assembly had proved the league was a living organ ism and a success. The opinion ex- pressed by many of the delegates is that the assembly has done all that could be expected of it, if not more.
 Several pet projects have met with disaster; yet there are few, if any, delegates who remained for the entire assembly that will leave dissatisfied with the work.
 The final day was marked by an- other encounter between the English delegates and those of the British do- minion Lord Robert Cecil acting for South Africa, and c. J. Doherty for Canada provoked an aggressive and significant declaration by A. J. Bal four to the effect that if the assembly adopted any recommendations concern ing mandates he and his successor on the league council would pay no at tention to them.
 Lord Robert Cecil and Mir. Doherty criticised the council for holding back information about mandates and SUD- ported the recommendation of the mandates committee the most impor tant of which were that the assembly express the opinion that the resources of territories under mandate should not be exploited by the mandatories for their own profit or for the profit of the allies and that the recruiting of troops should not be allowed in such territories.
 BaIfour Refuses to Vote The recommendations were adopted unanimously, Mir. Balfour contenting himself by saying they would have no effect, instead of voting against them. Esperanto fell victim to a sharp
 assault by Gabriel Hanotaux, when
 the committee reported in favor of an expression by the assembly with the
 object of encouraging the teaching ot esperanto in the public schools with a view to making it eventually an inter- national language and the language of the league. After a debate the assem- bly voted against the proposal. M. Hymans in his closing speech dweIt on the fact that the session oi
 the assembly demonstrated to all the
 value of the league.
 The hJague has developed a con- l to live, and will live. Through the setting up of an international court O justice the assembly has established
 a house of rights and a palace O ipeace."
 The activities of the assembly re
 specting typhus, he declared to be
 magnificent demonstration of humal
 solidarity. When the assembly spok of disarmament, M. Hymans said, tn
 members displayed keen anxiety to If the weight of ornaments from tn world, but at the same time realize that in the present unsettled conditio , of Europe nothing better could be don than had been done.
 He referred to the fraternal spiri 5 shown by the assembly. the member
 of which were separated only by shade of opinion, not by principles. He ap r pealed to the youth. the men of to ? morrow, those who fought in the grea war to construct a moral world indis
 pensable to the future of mankind an concluded:
 Let us continue our ascendin ' march toward the stars"