New-York tribune., 1920-11-17

Ton, presented Shc Japanese claim on
this point.
Unless the rate of procedure is
materially increased the assembly VIII
remain in session until after Christ
mas. Most of the delegates have shown
most trivial questions. To date moth
ing has been said on the floor by
Ignace Jan Paderewski or the other
representatives of Poland. although
privately they are extremely active.
Poland wants to be considered n
power of the first class, enjoying equal
rights with France, Great Britain,
Italy and Japan and ignoring the
smaller states. Naturally, this claim
has received little recognition from
any of the other delegates except those
Polish desires are expected to aienatc
the members representing some of the
European countries that were neutral
during the war
If the Poles persist in their demand
for recognition as a power they are
certain to antagonize not only the
Czecho-Slovak and Rumanian delegates,
but the Scandinavians as we'll.
The Polish delegates say that the
treaty with the Bolsheviki which they
concluded recently is only a temporary
must be made later
Poland's demands regarding Danzig,
which include military control of the
port, are pointed to as indicative of
the claims which they will make when
they reopen negotiations with the
Bolsheviki.
Mandate Issue Up Tomorrow
The council Of the league will meet
Thursday to reopen the question OF
mandates, which seems to be proving
one of the most troublesome of the
many knotty problems which the gov
erning council is called upon to con-
slider. The Poles won't recede from
their demands on Danzig, the repre-
sentatives OF Armenia are opposed to
giving the mandate for their country
to France, and the British do not like
the idea Of having fifteen members on
the mandate commission. These are
the Immediate problems.
After few brief preliminaries the
session OF the assembly tomorrow will
break up into commissions. 1t is in
these bodies that the real work of the
League of Nations Will be done.
The part America must play in world
affairs was referred to at yesterday
afternoons session by both President
Hymans and Giuseppi Motta, president
OF the Swiss council
DR. Motta, who is the first man from
the Italian canton Of Switzerland to
become the chief executive in his
country, appealed to America TO take
Its rightful place in the league" with
the words:
"The country which is q world in it.
self, and which is blessed with all the
riches OF earth; a glorious democracy
which has absorbed all the races and
given them common language and
government; people Influenced by the
highest ideals and affected by everv
advance made by material progress; a
state which hurled the decisive weight
OF its resources and its armies into the
scale and thus decided the future OF
all continents, and Europe in particular;
the land of George Washington, the
father of liberty, and Of Abraham Lin
coin, the champion Of and martyr to
the cause of the brotherhood Of man
this country cannot and surely does
not intend forever to turn its face
nations which, while retaining their in
dependence and their sovereign rights,
intend to cooperate for the peace and
the prosperity Of humanity.'
"The League of Nations will live" -"
Or. Motta continued, "but it would be
childish to expect miracles of it. 1t
already possesses a penetrating mora
Torce whicL we call international con
cciousness. Coercion will be within
is sphere of action, but it will rule
above all by moral force"
Presidenr Hymans, without refer
ring to the United States by name,
said:
"In spite of criticism, sometimes very
severe, which comes from far away
and precisely from the quarter of which
we hoped and continue to hope for
fruitful collaboration, we have the con-
viction that the league responds to the
need and the appeal which comes from
the soul of the people after the fright
full drama from which we have Just
emerged-an appeal and need for jus
tice, harmony and peace. Working to-
gether, let us seek step by step 10
achieve the reign SO long awaited
international morality and huma
right"
League Far from Perfect
Discussing the aims and hopes of tn,
leagues supporters. the President con.
tinued:
eve are far from supposing the in
stitution set up by the Covenant OF
Versailles perfect one or that the