Evening star., 1923-04-17
LEAGUE COUNCIL
| TACKLES DISPUTES
Program interesting in View
of Issue in American
Politics.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
inht

BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright 1928.
PARIS. April 17.-The council of
the league of nations meets today in
Geneva. At n time when the dis
patches report that the league is
again tending to become an issue in
American politics it is interesting TO
glance at the program of this coun-
Gil meeting. which offers sort OF
cross section of the work which the
league, after four years of existence,
is now performing.
Hungary protests against the ex-
preparation by Rumania of num-
ber of Hungarians in the territory
ceded to Rumania and asks the
leagues Intervention. Bulgaria al
ieges that the Greek authorities in
western Thrace are prosecuting the
Bulgarian population and asks for the
intervention Of the league. Bulgaria
also asks the league to assist in free
ing the country from the further
presence of allied military control
commissions, which it now claims is
Superflous. The Lithuanian govern
ment asks the councl authorization
10 submit to an international court
the legality of the recent decision of
the council OF ambassadors fixing
the Poltsh-Lithuanian frontier.
Frontier Dispute Submitted.
Czechoslovakia and Hungary have
submitted their frontier dispute to
the councils arbitration and are ex-
pecting a decision in a few days. DIR.
Zimmerman, the leagues commits
sioner in Austria, will report on the
execution of measures which seem
really to have saved that unfortu-
nate country from complete ruin.
The report of the leagues inquiry
commission to Albania Will be con-
sidered and the financial adviser that
Albania asks the league to appoint
may be named. A new president Will
be appointed to succeed Calender as
head of the upper SileSian mixed
commission. Various appointments
will be made to the mixed tribunals
of Belgium and several former enemy
states.
Danzig Up Again.
Questions concerning the leagues
administration of Danzig and the
Saar basin will be considered. Prep
arations will be made for choosing
Judge for the international court of
justice to succeed Ruy Barboza of
Brazil, who died recently.
Several questions regarding arma-
ment are on the program, the most
important being as to what action
shall be taken in view OF Secretary
Hughes letter declaring that the
United States sympathiZes with the
aims of the st. Germain arms trafflc
control convention. but cannot ratify
the actual terms. The economic
committee which has been preparing
work fov the coming international
conference on customs formaltleS
will recommend that the Irish Free
State be invited to attend.
After Traffic in Women.
The mtttee on traffic in women
and children. ON the recommendation
OF Grace Alb butt, chief of the chill
dren's buream OF the United States
Department OF. Labor. will suggest a
thorough inve stigation of the actual
extent and 1usethod of this evil
traffic.
The internatF6 nal commission on
aerial navigation will ask the council
TO do whatever IS possible to per-
suade states not slgnatory TO the
aviation convention to agree to the
system of lighting airplanes accepted
in the convention. The international
association for the promotion OF child
welfare will ask tG be placed under !
the direction of the league. 4
Finally the Finnis h government Is
asking the council to refer to the
court for an advisory
opinion whether the question of con-
aitfons in eastern ,karelia. where
Finland touches bolsheviSt Russia, tS
not a matter OF international concern