The New York herald., 1922-09-05
CHILEAN BECOMES
LEAGUE PRESIDENT
Edwards Receives AZ Out of Al
Votes at Assembly Open
ing at Geneva.
CECIL FOR PUBLICITY
Lord Robert in Report Tells of
Years Work, Including
Silesian Settlement.
CECIL FOR PUBLICITY

GENEVA, Sept. (Associated Press).-
The third assembly of the League of
Nations opened this morning. There
was movement on the part of Peru
favoring Or. Eduard Benes. Premier of
Czecho-S -Slovakia, for the presidency, but
later the South American delegations ap-
proved unanimously the candidacy of
Augustin Edwards OF Chile, who re-
ceived forty-two votes out of the forty
four States which had presented Gre
dentials to the assembly.
The Assembly distributed the labor
among six committees, as 1t did last
year. These committees are;
First, On constitutional and jurid-
&c questions; second. on technical
organization third, on reduction of ar
maments; fourth, on finances: fifth. OH
social and general questions SIXTH on
political questions
The presidents of the committees were
named as follows: First Vittorio
Scialoia, of Italy: second, Witold
Chodzko, Poland third. DR.. Cosme de la
Torriente, Cuba; fourth. Herluf Zahle.
Denmark fifth, w. S. Fielding, Canada,
and sixth. Jonkheer ]. Loudon, Holland.
Senior Edwards in taking the chair
said: ITO the first assembly fell the
great task OF creating and shaping the
noble means by which nations stagger-
ing under countless blows in the great
war might restore their shattered
frames and reconstruct on a new basis
of international life. The second as
sembly continued the work of the first
and added on a new basis of the first and
added to an edifice laboriously begun
by giving to the world the permanent
court Of international justice. The third
assembly, which we inaugurate to-day.
is to consolidate and coordinate all the
organizations containing the germinat-
ing seed of UNIVERSAL cooperation.
"The bureaus in which the most emil
nent men of the Assembly have always
figured and must continue to figure. and
the highly experienced staff of the secre-
tariat will, | trust be swift to repair
the deficiencies of the president. But
gentlemen, it is above all your indulg-
ence and your support, fortified by the
intimacy of relations which your choice
of me has created between US, that are
essential to the full fruition of our de-
liberations. For that indulgence, for
that support / earnestly appeal, conf
dent that / do not ask in vain."
Former Premier Paderewski of Po-
land, who was one of the most active
figures at the first Assembly of the
League. followed to-days proceedings.
with Mrs. Paderewski, from the public
gallery.
The report of the credentials commit
tee showed that the following member
nations were not represented at ths
opening: Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras.
Nicaragua, Salvador Peru and Luxem-
bourg.
Lord Robert Cecil. in his annual re-
port, said that the most important work
done by the league In the last year was
the Upper Silesia settlement. which had
been completed and embodied In
treaty signed by Germany and Poland
During this period the league had been
called on to settle seven big political
questions.
The league. he reported. had pro-
NOTED peace by permitting minorities OF
any nation to air their grievances be-
fore the assembly. He called attention
to the fact that action of minorities in
the past had been one of the most pro-
life causes of war. Lord Robert also
gave details of the fight the league Is
conducting against the traffic in opium
and other narcotics.
Lord Robert recommended that the
fullest possible publicity be given ses-
sions OF the assembly.