Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-20
BR|TON PIEADSFOR
BUSINESS Freedom
BETWEEN STATES
Huns Protest Against Estab-
fishing Mandates for For
mer Teuton CoIonieS-Not
Bound by Treaty

GENEVA, Nov. 19.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. )-Immediat admission
of Germany and the other former
enemy states to the League of Ma
lions was urged before the assembly
of the league today by George Nicoll
Barnes, of the British delegation.
Representing as he did the laboring
people of Great Britain, said Mr..
Barnes, he knew the great majority
Of them demanded that all the
enemy states be admitted without
delay.
The British delegate recalled the
fact that Germany had taken part
already in the deliberations of the
international labor bureau establish
ed by the league.
"The people of Great Britain,
whom 1 represent here" he said,
do not forget the central empires
plunged the world into war. They
do not forget the misery and de-
vastation caused. But the question
now is to rescue the world from ruin,
and the cooperation of the former
enemy states is needed"
Inaction Criticized
Mr.. Barnes in his speech, which
was delivered in course of discus
sion on the report to the assembly
made oy the executive council of
the league. spoke approvingly of the
action of the council on some ques-
tions, but criticized its inaction dur
ing the last year while Poland and
soviet Russia were engaged in hos
tiIities
He cited Article XXI of the league
covenant, providing that any war or
threat of war should constitute
matter of concern to the whole
league and that it should take any
action deemed wise and effectnal to
safeguard the peace of nations, and
inquired why the council had not
taken action under that article to
prevent the Russo-Polish war.
In reinforcing his argument for
speedy membership of eX-enemy
states in the league, Mr.. Barnes re-
ferred to the instability of present
economic conditions and the anomo-
lies in exchange.
Speaker Applauded
What is needed above ALL" he
said, is greater production and the
utmost freedom in business transac-
lions between the different countries,
and this is unobtainable as long as
the world is divided into two
camps"
The assembly, which customariiy
listens to a speaker without mani
Testing it's sentiments until he has
finished his remarks, broke into gen.
eraI applause at this point
Countries kept out from associa-
ton with US will form an associa-
ton of their own" the British dele
gate added, land we shall return to
the dangerous pre-war system of al
liances."
Mr.. Barnes pointed out that the
world was dealing now in central
Europe, not with European kings but
with free peoples taking charge of
their own destinies.
Dutch Member Speaks
The Dutch minister of foreign af-
fairs, H. A. Van Karnabeek, ad-
dressed the assembly on the ques-
ton of registration of treaties. He
called attention to the provision of
the treaty of Versailles that treaties
were not binding until they were
registered. He said there were sew
sral interpretations of Article XVIII
Of the covenant containing this pro-
vision. and he proposed that it be
studied carefully either by the as
saknbly or by commission with
view to it's Qualification.
Giuseppe Motta, president of
Switzerland. raised the question of
the relation of the council of the
league to the assembly. He held that
the report of the council was not
presented to the assembly for the
approval of the latter body, but for
It's information. He gave it as his
view that the council and the assem-
bly, could not be regarded as bearing
the relation to each other, for ex-
ample, Of government and parlia-
ment, but rather that each had its
own separate function and status.
President Motta also alluded to
the treaty registration question and
incidentally called attention to the
fact that Of nine treaties registered
with the league, five were Swiss.
"There will always be diplomacy,
I will not say secret, but discreet"
remarked M. Motta, who pleaded,
however, for the most open diploma
cy with full publicity through the
reois+rati on of all treaties.