Imperial Valley press., 1924-07-21
BY HENRY WOOD
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

NSAeoU 1IcSS otdII COrreSpOuueuCI
GENEVA, July 21.-The fifth an
nual assembly of the League of Ma
tions, which has been summoned
this year for September /, will wit
ness the greatest gathering at Ge-
'neva of International forces, organl-
cations and personalities working
behalf of the League, which has
ever taken place.
Besides Macdonald, Herriot and
Mussolini, all of whom have given
assurance of. their desire to attend
this years session provided their
domestic situation permits, and to
say nothing of Ras Taffari, prince
regent of Ethiopia who will attend,
virtually every national and inter
national organization in the state
world which is working for the Lea
que, will have delegations present
throughout the entire assembly.
Where the official delegations
present at the assembly represent
their respective governments, the
delegations present from all of these
national and international associa-
tions, represent the unofficial pub
lie opinion of their respective coun
tries and the two combined are
counted on to give this year an ex-
ceptional impetus and develop
mcnt to the League.
AS is usually the ease in League
matters, the United States while
not being a member and while hav
ing no official delegate present to
the assembly, will have more unof-
ficial delegations and more repre-
sentatives of League associations
present than any other country.
U. s. Represented
The various American organiza-
tions that have notified the secre-
tariat of their intention to maintain
delegations at, Geneva throughout
the assembly are. the Council of the
Federal Churches Of Christ, the
Non Partisan Association for the
League of Nations, the World s
Peace Foundation and the Foreign
Police Association.
In attition the United States will
have representation through scve-
raj international organizations to
which various American societies on
behalf of the League belong.
Perhaps the most important of
these is the Interparliamentary I'm
ion, which has been officially i'll
vited by the United States senate
to hold its 1925 congress in the
United States. The American MEM
Der on the council of this organi-
zation for the present is Theodore
E. Burton.
The Interparliamentary Union
will begin it's annual conference this
year at Berne on August %, but I'M
mediately following adjournment on
the 2Sth, the entire conference will
come to Geneva for an official
visit to the Secretariat and the AS
sembly. A commission! will then
be appointed to remain at Geneva
and follow the dcliberation of the
Assembly throughout its entire scs-
sion.
The next most important interna-
tional organization that will sit
in on the Assembly this year is
the International Union League of
Nations associations which has just
held its annual congress at Lyons.
The Union consists of representa-
tatives from the various League Of
Nations societies in nearly all of
the leading counties of the world,
including several that are not mem
bers of the League, such as the
United States, Germany and Rus
sia.
League Union Helps
The Union is supporting all of the
work of the League such rs mu-
tual defense, and urging an even
more extensive activity of the Lea
que into such questions as reparar
tions, and intcrallicd debts. The
union will maintain it's Executive
Council at Geneva throughout the
assembly in order to keep in touch
with the League s work.
Finally, the latest international
organization that will meet at &c
neva for University Federation for
the League of Nations. This organi-