Evening star., 1923-09-09
IRELAND IS MADE.
! LEAGUE MEMBER
Formal Reception Tomorrow,
| Next Step in italian
f; Row Considered.
u the Associated Press.


friendship for the Irish free state
featured this evenings meeting OF
the league of nations. when, by the
unanimous vote of the membership
commission Ireland was recommended
for admission. On Monday she VIII
become a formal part of the league
by the action Of the assembly
There was a warm feeling tonight
In the hearts of the Irish delegation
President William T. CosgraVe ana
Desmond Fitzgerald, foreign minis
ter, and all the others. for many ma
tfons joined In a spontaneous mani
festation of good will and best WISH
ca for Ireland and her future pros
perity and happiness. England
France. China, Persia and the spokes-
men for other lands participated IN
the demonstration of friendliness.
busy Week Closes.
Thus the most palpitating week IN
the history of the league ciosed win
general rejoicing that the ureco-
Italian crisis offers good prospects Oh
settlement because of the co-opera-
tive activities of the council OF the
league, but with the conviction ahohs
the delegates generally that the aueS
ton of the leagues competency 10 act
directly in such crisis must De
settled once and for all
THE issue at stake Is regarded as
entirely clear: Italy, member state
has declined to recognize that the
league covenant obliges her to submit
her dispute to the league for settle
mont, Delegates of many countries
point out that If what they define as
th;s defiance OF the covenant is
allowed to stand unchallenged the
prestige of the Organization Is I'M
periled II not lost altogether
They emphasize that if the Italian
rejection of the leagues intervention
is allowed to go unquestioned oe-
structive precedent will have oeen
established to which any member
state in the future can refer as justt-
fication for ignoring the statutes or
the league.
There is no disposition to brutalize
italy or to summon her brusquely
before the bar of world opinion as
represented by the league. but there
Is a clearly defined and growing opin-
lon that the question OF competency
must be passed upon either by the
council or by the assembly. Some
delegations think the Italian attitude
towards the league is a purely polit-
ical question and that every foreign
office or every member country should
be forced to 60 on public record as
whether they do or do not uphold the
position of the Rome government.
There are other delegations which
opine that in view of the existence
of the council Of ambassadors whose
agents the murdered Italian military
mission were. the question OF the
leagues competency is a purely juris-
dicial question.
). BIaY Ask Court Ruling.
Hence their idea Is that the Per-
manent Court of International Justice
should be asked to give an advisory
opinion as to the leagues compe-
tency
Next week is expected to bring
some deyelopments' on the issue of
competency which all the delegates.
aud especially those representing
smaller WOrlQ Suites, Seem 10 tHlHh
50 vital to the leagues future and
supremely important to the cause OF
international peace.
NJ Politis, the Greek spokesman.
told the Associated Press correspond
ent that Greece would not insist upon
Il fdecision by the league council on
the question of competency IL the
action of the council OF ambassadors
resulted satisfactorily. Solution Of
the crisis to him was the main thing.
and the problem of competency be-
came a purely academic question
when the crisis was passed.
Credits League.
I'VE should not forget" he added,
that. after all, it was the council of
the league of nations which found the
formula of the proposed settlement.
Results count"
In the meantime the delegates are
anticipating addressing themselves to
other matters, such as the project for
reduction of armaments and pacts OF
mutual assistance, which were elaoo-
rated at the Paris meeting OF the
council. In these pacts power would
be given the league to decide which
state was the aggressor in case OF
war and to say against which state
pledged assistance was to be given.
These two questions, the mutual
assistance treaties and reduction of
armaments. will be discussed stimuli
taneoISly in the assembly.
Augustin Edwards. the repre-
sentative of Chile, has taken the
present occasion to emphasize anew
that Latin America is practically dis
armed and that her sole desire Is to
escape being dragged into the arma-
ment race existing elsewhere. He
maintains 1t is wrong to speak as
some do Of the failure of the San
tiago conference. He said it should
be remembered the conference gave
birth to continental convention
whose object is the preventing OF
conflicts between South American
states and submission to a commits
sion Of investigation of all their dif-
ferences which cannot be regulated
by diplomacy or arbitration.
Senior Edwards has given notice
that when the debate on the pact of
mutual assistance begins the South
emphasize that the countries sign
ing the South American continental
treaty not to begin mobilization of
troops during six periods to permit
the cooling of national excitement.
United States Senators Mckinley
and former Senator Hitchcock OF
Nebraska called on President Cos.
grave of the Irish Free State today
and discussed the condition of ireland
and the recent elections. They felici-
tated him on his cordial demonstra.
tion before the league commission to.
day, when Ireland's application for
aamtssi0n aaTasa' was unanimously sup
The senator's were pre- Ated to Mr.
Cosgrave by NJ. J. DoyN of Phila-
delphia.