The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
TEMPERATURE NOW
 RISING IN GENEVA AS DELEGATES AND ARTICLE X MEET
Paragraph That Jared Amer ica Loose Is Subject of Dig nified Discussions In Nu-
 merouS Languages.
 Line of Questions
nx Associated Press


 Geneva, November 21.-The responsibilities of the League of Nations and the responsibilities of its individual members under Article X of the covenant is one question the committee of ad- ministration of new members is considering in connection with the applications of IA states, not including Germany. These applications are now in the hands of subcommittees. They are:
 Finland, Esthonia, Letvia, Lithuonia and Luxembourg, referred to a subcom- mittee presided over by M. Poullett; Aus tria, Bulgaria, Albania and Lichtensteln, referred to subcommittee presided over by Lord Robert Cecil. and Georgia Ar menia. Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Costa Rica, subcommittee presided over by pr. Fridtjor of Nansen, Norway,
 THE QUESTIONS
 
 X, the committees will consider in re- spect to each applicant the following questions
 Is it's application in order? Is the gov ernment applying recognized dc jure or de facto, and by which states? Has the applicant nation a stable government and settled frontiers; what is it's size, and population it is. self?governing? What has been it's conduct, including both acts an uif a,.d to int national obligations?
 The latter question is supposed to have been inspired by the French mem Der of the committee, NJ. Virviana, with view to any proposition that may be submitted to elect Germany
 The prescriptions of the league as 10 araments will also be considered in con- nection with the military power of eaeh applicant.
 first weeks work of the assembly has been satisfactorily accomplished, even more so than could have been expected, as the4 conference has got beyond the chaotic period of organization sooner than usual ,ssth freshly organized bodies lff1 spite ot the diversified Interests. views and languages represented
 UP TO TIME
 The assembly is we'll up to schedule time on the programme and 1t is oX- peeted now that it will finish it's labor5 by the middle of December. Final, concerted resolutions are not eN- pected on all questions, because most ot the important problems are complicated by the absence of the United States, Russia and the central European powers. It is hoped, however, that fundamental plans will be laid to control armameats, organize an international court of jus tice and put in force the blockade against any power breaking the covenant.
 Slight amendments to the covenant may be made, though many delegates hold that the entire question should await propositions from the United States which they expect as a result of President-elect I:-<ding's consultations.
 GERMANY'S OAR
 The question of mandates, i'll conse- auence of Germany's protest to the as- sembly against the manner of the seiec- tion of mandatories, touches upon the relations between the council of the league and the assembly and their re- spective jurhsdlctons. The Germans ap- peal to the assembly is on question which the council regards within its own province.
 Some of the delegates intend to make an issue on the supremacy of the as- semb!y over the council y fighting for the election of all the members of the council by the assembly, thus taking the control out of the hands of the big pow CTS which under present conditions. name a majority. This would involve the revision of the covenant on which it would be impossible to reach the re- uuired unanimity
 It is claimed that the importance Of Germany's protest is lessened by the fact that it has been understood all along that the present question of colo nies and territories subject to mandate is only provisional pending the acton of the league to sanction the method Of administration. It is reported on good authority that Premier Lloyd George Is only waiting for an improvement in the weather at Geneva and for the assembly to arrive at a stage where the final re' suit can be forecast with more or less accuracy before coming here to take his place as tone of the British delegates during the discussion of some special questions.