Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
LEAGUE COUNCIL,
MEETS At GENEVA

GENEVA, Jan. 1.-THE League
Of Nations met here today on the
second anniversary of the founding
of the league.
Paul Hymans, Of Belgium, presid-
ed over the opening session.
The council expects to launch
formally the project Of an interna-
tional court at The Hague, which
will be opened in February. The
council began at once drawing up a
list of international questions which
will come within the jurisdiction Of
the world court.
A number Of other questions were
to be laid before the league.
The question of what nationality
is to be given inhabitants of mandat-
EUROPE is JUBILANT
OVER LEAGUES PROSPECT
By Edward Price Bell
'sGeeial cable to The atlanta Journal and
LONDON, England, Jan. IL
League of Nation enthusiasts are
jubilant over reports indicating the
possibility that leading European
statesmen, particularly Lloyd George
and BRAND, will take steps for the
further promotion of the essential
purposes of the league. The British
and French premiers have never
been pleased with the formal apos-
tasy Of the United States from the
Versailles covenant. They disliked
the view that the covenant was i'll
conceived and never could result in
anything but futility. 1t is safe to
assume that the first-rate men of all
the nations signatory to the league
felt likewise.
Lloyd Georges attitude of mind
may be judged from his action in
sending Arthur Balfour, the fore
most British public man, to repre-
sent Great Britain in the delibera-
tons on league business. Not for a
moment has the British government
or people wavered in it's adhesion
to the league or in it's determination
to do everything possible to make it
a success.
""When President Harding's invita-
ton to Washington came Lloyd
George eagerly accepted because he
had learned the value of interna.
tional conferences and because he
perceived in the Washington meet
ing an opportunity to further the
objects for which the League of Ma
tons stands. Here again it was
Mr.. Balfour, who was chosen at
Britain's chief representative. He
was chosen not for his prestige alone.
but for his, skill in paving the way
to international understanding and
confidence. He was chosen, to put
it differently, as the British en-
pire's ablest student and eXpounder
Of the League of Nations ideal.
Washington taught European
craftsmanship much. 1t taught the
Importance of a concrete and man
ageabIe program. 1t taught the
worth of directness, vigor and cour-
age in international affairs. Pro
ceeding not from a prior reasoning,
but from actual conditions demand
ing business-like treatment it has
yet won the complete approval OF
those in Europe, who from the very
first gave their faith to the great
abstraction called the League of Ma
tons. With one voice these per-
sons said in effect ''the United
States after proclaiming that she
would have nothing to do with the
League. of Nations machinery is Civ
ing substance and life to the League
of Nations SOUL"
Now Lloyd George, BRAND and
other European leaders are disposed
to push further along the path de-
fined at Washington. For the mo-
ment they are silent regarding the
League of Nations. They are not
discussing it's machinery or it's theo-
ries. They are trying to find way
to do it's Notwithstanding interna-
tional ignorance, allaying interna-
tional suspicion and setting in Eu-,
rope that international sanity and
Justice is the essential realization OF
the leagues dream of peace. This
has the whole-hearted.
of the British government,
press and people. They care next
to nothing about the formulas of
the league; they care everything
about it's aims and they believe that
these are nearer the domain Of prac-
teal politics now than at any pre-
vious time in the history Of Europe.
On every hand one sees evidence
of the conviction of British thinkers
that Europe can advance on the
lines of Washington and that Europe
does not exist as an economic en-
tity or as a possible promoter of
world peace except with Germany
and Russia included.