The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-20
Protests She No Longer
Considers Herself Bound
by Treaty Clauses.
SEES PACT VIOLATED
Understood She Was to Be
Admitted and Take Part
in Allotting Mandates.
A PLEA FOR GERMANS
Assembly Working Wonder
fully for All Races, Says
Baron Hayashi.
by LAURENCE HILLS.

Special Gable to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyrght. 1920, by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
GENEVA, Nov. 19.-Both the mandate
Issue and the question regarding the
attitude the League Of Nations shall
assume toward Germany's admission
to league membership were brought
sharply before this world meeting to-
day by new move on Germany's part
"a move conceived with all the skill
of German politicians.
In a note received last evening the
German Government puts up directly
to the assembly the failure of the AL
lies to live up to the terms of Article
CXIX. of the Treaty of Versailles and
Article XXI. of the League Covenant
regarding the transfer of the German
colonies to other Powers and the man
dates for them.
The note, the full text of which was
not given out, insists that Germany
signed the Versailles treaty believing
these colonies would be handed over
to the league to be administered under
Article XXII., the league governing
both their distribution and administra-
ton. The note also declares that one
of the reasons why Germany consented
to this was her expectation ultimately
TO have a voice in the affairs of her
one time colonies as member of the
league.
The Allies having. as Germany con-
tends failed to observe these clauses.
Germany makes her usual threat to re-
serve her rights under the treaty. mean
ing that she will not consider herself
bound thereby through this failure. This
German protest is cleverly designed to
recognize the Assembly as the supreme
body of the league-even superior to
the Supreme Council. She made the
same contention In the Eupen- Malmedy
dispute. Her contention, Of course.
agrees very much with the position
taken by the most advanced league en-
thusiasts. including Lord Robert Cecil
and DR.. Fritdjof Nansen.
The announcement regarding the Ger
m an note, the existence of which first
became known through a Slip coir-
cides with a speech by George Nicoll
Barnes member of the British delega-
tion, before the Assembly to-day. This
speech was the most earnest effort yet
made for Germany's admission to league
membership. Protesting to speak for
English labor and not to be understood
as speaking officially for Great Britain,
Mr.. Barnes urged eloquently that the
former enemy States should be admitted
to membership in the league at the
earliest possible moment declaring that
this was necessary for the peace and
prosperity of the world
1.-THE mandates referred to in the Ger
man protest were provided for in Arti-
Gle XXI. of the covenant OF the League
of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles.
II was stipulated there that colonies and
territories severed from their former
sovereignty by the war and inhabited by
peoples of backward development should
be placed under the tutelage OF ad-
vanced nations acting as mandatories
or behalf of the league. All of Ger
many's former colonial possessions come
under this category. the list including
the African colonies. such as German
East Africa and the Kamerun. and the
several groups OF islands in the Pacific