The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-24
LEAGUE To AWAIT
HARDING 5 VIEW
AS To COVENANT
Before Assembly Will Propose
Any Amendments
MESSENGER ON THE WAY
Rumor Says Senator Mccormick Hao
Started for Geneva with Word
from Harding.

Geneva, Nov 24.-Projects for an
international staff, proposed by Leon
Bouregoise at the Versailles confer.
ence and rejected there were reviewed
yesterday in prolonged discussion re.
gardlng the reduction of armaments.
M Bourgeois declared that the
carrying ont of the Versailles treaty
must be assured before disarmament
is possible. He declared that in order
to make the treaty effective some mill.
tary organization such as he proposed
at the peace conference will be re-.
quired.
There Is some uncertainty relative TO
the admission Of Luxembourg and
Finland to the league. It is said to
be probable they may be invited to
join by majority Of the delegates
Montenergos eleventh hour applica.
tion was not discussed Sentiment ap
pears to indicate that Albania may not
be admitted.
Paris, Nov. 24.-Senator Mccormick
OF Illinois is crossing the Atlantic to
lay Harding's views on the League OF
Nations before government chiefs says
a Geneva report,
Geneva Nov. "a (By The Associat
cd Press There will be no amend.
ments to the covenant of the League
Of Nations at this session of the AS.
scmbly II the decision OF Committee
No. THAT on general organization
which has been considering amend.
ments, is approved in full session.
Arthur j. Balfour, chairman of the
committee, suggested in committee
meeting that It was too early to draw
conclusions as to the working OF dhe
league or to form an idea as to how
the covenant may be improved He
proposed that the committee recon-
mend the appointment OF a special
committee to consider proposed amend
ments and report to the next meeting
of the Assembly.
The Scandinavian delegates on the
committee insi ted upon the consid.
Grafton Immediately Of amendments
they proposed, but they were out.
voted. The South American de egates
accepted Mr. Balfour's suggestion all
/ the more readily, because they are
of the opinion that any amendment
OF the covenant should await proposi-
tlCns that are expected from the
United States after President elect
Harding's consultations on the sub.
iect They declared it would be en-.
tlrely out of order to revise the coy
enant In the absence Of one of the
most important nations of the world.
| The committee on the international
court decided to send a letter of
thanks and congratulations to Elihu
Root and other delegates of The
/ Hague conference. This is as far as
they have got in their work.
/ Antonio Huneus, head of the Chill
can delegation and chairman OF the
committee on admission OF new mem.
bers, told The Associated Press to.
day that his committee a'readv was
hard at work and hoped to make an
early report
News Of the application OF Monte
negro for membership in the League
of Nations leaked out today No in
formation whatever was given on the
subject by the secretariat of the
League. This eleventh hour applica.
ton necessarily will come up on the
floor of the assembly before being
referred to committee
The council OF the League of Ma
tions has decided to invite the
scandinavian countries to participate
in policing the plebisclte territories
Of Yilna by each sending one hundred
men there.