Evening star., 1922-01-04
PREPARING TO OPEN
COURT Of NATIONS
Jonkheer van Karnebeek De-
parts to Preside Over Open
ing of World Judiciary.
FORMAL SESSION JUNE Is
Results of League Pointed Out.
Arranging to Take Up Land
Armament.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOwRER-

The departure of Jonkheer van
Karnebeek, head of the Dutch dele
cation to the Washington conference,
for the purpose of presiding, as Tor
eign minister of Holland, over the or
ganization and opening of the per-
manent court of international justice
at The Hague, January 80. calls at
tention to the work of world paciti-
cation which the. league of nations.
concurrently with the Washington
conference, is carrying on. The
statutes OF the permanent court,
formed under the leagues auspices,
were largely drawn up by Elihu Root
by the league council and assembly
to represent the United States in
the court, is also leaving for Holland.
where he will henceforth sojourn
more or less permanently, In pur-
suance of his duties as international
judge. The courts first formal ses-
sion will open next June Is. Cases
connected with the status of Danzig.
with the labor clauses of the YER
sailles treaty, and possibly the Pol
ish-Lithunian dispute, are expected
to be brought before it at once.
Ends One Conflict.
Reports received here by those close
to the league. such as A. ]. Balfour,
state that the league has been sue
cessful in stopping the hostilities
which had broken out between AL
bania and Jugoslavia. A league COM
mission, composed of Dutchman,
Finn and a Swiss. is now in Albania,
studying the situation on the spot.
Representatives of these three ma
tionalitieS were chosen because all
are conversant in their own countries
with the problem of racial minorities.
which plays large part in the AL
banian-Jugoslav troubles. The Serbs
had for some time refused to retire
their troops behind the so-called am
bassadors' line. which had been drawn
to separate the combatants. In these
circumstances Lloyd George wrote a
ing that it should consider the pos
sibility of applying the economic boy
colt, provided by the covenant.
against Jugoslavia. This letter alone
was sufficient to cause violent fall
in Jugoslav exchange. with the re-
suit that the Serbs Immediately came
to terms. The incident is without
precedent and is full Of interest.
Negotiating ON Silesia.
Other interesting items connected with
the leagues activities are also reported
Polish and German plenipotentiaries are
now in Geneva, negotiating. under the
leagues auspices, the details of the
economic phases of the upper Silesian
settlement. This settlement, it will be
recalled, divided the contested territory
by political frontier roughly leaving
most of the Poles on one side and most
of the Germans on the other; at the
same time. it aimed to heal over the
economic cleavage thus threatened by
a series Of German-Polish economic
agreements tending to preserve the
economic unity of upper Silesia. 1t is
expected that if the precedent is proved
to be useful and practical it may be
applied to other parts of Europe where
new political and racial frontiers have
interfered with normal economic rela-
tions. The Polish German negotiations
are being presided over by N. CAL
onder. former president of Switzerland
and former member of the leagues sue
cessful commission in the Aaland Islands
dispute.
Two Treaties Concluded.
Czechoslovakia has recently con-
cluded two general and compulsory
arbitration treaties, one with Poland.
the other with Austria. which are
also of interest to the league, because