The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-10
LEAGUE Of nations
NOW 4 2-YEAR-OLD
Cooperation of Nations
Without Losing Soyer-
eighty Demonstrated
COUNCIL OF LEAGUE
MEETS AT GENEVA

VIII Consider Protest of Lithuania
Against Wilma Election - Permanent
Court of International Justice
Leagues Greatest Single Triumph
Five Disputes Before It.
NEW YORK. Jan. lo-The league of
nations Is two years old today.
On this anniversary. the claim IS set
forth by its admirers that the league
has demonstrated that nations can CO.
operate without losing their sovereignty,
without using force and with mutual
advantage TO all
/ The dav also Is important from a
( league roiat o. view because tie 10th
meeting of the council OF the league viii
be held today al Geneva. The council
F, Is composed Of Representatives IF Great
I Britain, France. ltdt, japan, Belgium.
Brazil Spain ard China.
t,,.lt. VIII consider the protest Of The GOV
tiiitntnt al +fRt ht!tttiih 4tbsieetn 5fiss t'tha
,fgcJlGIs Jr4au2ed To determine whether
the Wilma lereiteTr- snail ~ Iul-su OF
Lithuanian. the methods devised foE the
division CT Upper SIlesia between PO-
land and Germany, and questions affect
ing mandates over backward peoples.
League 1cc1mpi.s-s mems
; The league has built up flexible
J structure lot international co-opera-
{ tIuu. SAYS an estimate of It's accom-
pl5#nueuts issued today BY the league
: OF nat .ULs news bureau. lit has solved
several serious conflicts between ma
lions ana established the machinery
Tor solving others that may arise. It has
/ begun the creation OF a new kind OF IN
Sensational law has advanced certain
/ highly humanitarian projects and has
j provided q broad forum Tor inteTna-
/ tiouai conference whether on general or
/ technical questions, .
Creation of the permanent court of in
/ tcIHatloual justice - referred TO I'M this
/ statement as the greatest single tri-
lmUh OF the league. Declaring that
] the league 5 FIRST task Is To prevent
i war, the statement adds: - Already five
/ disputes threatening world peace have
4 been brought before it. Three have been
settled finally and two are in uegotia-
I tiou. Procedure wholly new in diplo
macy has been used ON several occasions
but force never.
Five Disputes.
! The I'VE disputes referred to are, that
I between Sweden and Finland ever the
] Aland islands. the Polish Lithuanian
dispute ovsr the territory Of wilma.
seized by General Iellows6I, at he head
| of Polish troops: the division OF Upper
/ Nilesia between Poland and Germany;
tho lagoalaN Invasion ~ Albania and
I lie three Coracrcd controversy between
Chill. Peru and Bolivia over Taena and
Ariea.
The statement summarized also the
work accomplished by the various tech
pical organizations on commissions sub
EordEa1od to the league OF nations, such
IS that administering the SCAR valley.
the international health organizations
and others. II states that under the di-
rcctian of Dr.. Fridtjof Eanscn, 100000
war prisoners many OF whom haye been
returned to their homes -
Assertion is made THAI the league has
achieved least success in the reduction
Of armaments' but that progress eon-
corning preparatory work in that direc-|
tion has been accomplished