Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-19
CHILD PROTECTION
MADE LEAGUE AIM
Work of International Fed
Grafton Is Taken Over by
Geneva Body.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GENEVA, September 19.-Steps have
been taken in the commissions of the
League of Nations assembly to place
children under the protection of the
league.
The project provides for reorgani-
Zation of the permanent commission
on traffic in women and children un-
der a new name, with two groups of
experts, one for questions relating to
traffic in women and children and the
other for all matters promoting the
welfare of children.
The latter group will include repre-
sentatives of the principal associa-
tions concerned with children, es-
pecially the International Federation
for Promoting Child Welfare, with
headquarters at Brussels, the work
of which will henceforth be under
taken by the league.
Persian Protest Studied.
Persia's protest that she has been
excluded by Great Britain from the
legal privileges accorded in Meso-
potamia to Americans, Europeans and
japanese was one reason why the
council of the league today post
poned definite action on Great Brit
aims treaty with Mesopotamia,
which territory is juridically known
as Irak.
Mesopotamia was placed under the
mandate of Great Britain upon it's
severance from the Ottoman empire,
but Great Britain has preferred to
substitute bilateral treaty for the
| mandate system, the two countries
under this treaty virtually entering
into military alliance and Great
Britain engaging to recognize the in
dependence of Mesopotamia within
four years and favor her admission
to the League of Nations if the ma
tional progress of Mesopotamia war
rants such a step. The council was
asked today by England to approve
the treaty, but postponed a decision
pending further study of the proposal
May Adjourn in October.
Indications are that the present
assembly of the league will continue
until the first week in October and
to make adjournment possible even
by that time the commissions must
hold night sittings to get through
with the agenda.
The work of framing procotol on
arbitration and security and prepar-
ing for an international conference
for the reduction of armaments has
made the assembly one of the most
| important in the history of the league
and the laborS entailed in preparing
the way for the necessary agreements
render the delegates life strenuous
one.
Few, if any. of those taking part in
the assembly have had an opportu-
nifty to enjoy the gorgeous weather
now prevailing in Geneva, for most
of them are closeted throughout the
day and far into the night in the COM
m nd ntelS l,-
striving to reconcile conflicting views
and reach a common consent.
Some Feeling Strain.
Already this strenuous life has laid
low several of the leagues intellec-
tual laborers. Former Premier BRAND
of France is confined to his room
with the grippe and digestive trou-
BILE; Lord Parmoor, head of the Brit
| iSh delegation, has bad throat and
is scarcely abls to speak, having
oyerworked his vocal organs in the
unceasing discussions; Leon Bour-
geois, already somewhat feeble with
age, has had to curb his activities be-
cause of the danger of OVERRIDING, and
DR.. Cosme de la Torriente of Cuba
has been obliged to relinquish his
place on the subcommiSsion of II be-
| cause of indisposition. Several 9TH
| ers are also beginning to feel the
| strain of overapplication to duty.
The subcommission today will at
| tempt to reach an agreement on the
exact phraseology of Article 9 in the
| draft protocol on arbitration and Sc
| curfty,, drawn up by Foreign Minister
| Benes of CzechoSlovakia. The most
! reliable information is that this
| agreement probably will make it
| clear that after a sufficient number of
| nations have ratified the protocol it
| will be suspended from entering into
| force pending the convocation of the
| projected armament conference. The
committeeman have not yet decided
upon the number of ratifications to be
| deemed nece SSary.
Lively passages at arms over
! whether woman delegates to the
League of Nations should forget their
sex when celebrating on league mat
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