Evening star., 1924-09-02

financial questions, social and general
! questions and political questions.
Foreign Minister Duca of Rumania
was chosen president of the most i'm
| portant comc1ission-that which will
discuss all Problems relating to the
reduction Of armaments, including
the pact for mutual assistance.
Tine presidents of the other commits
sions are:
eral of Australia, legal and constitu-
tional questions.
NarclSco Garay. Panama foreign
/ secretary, technical organizations
Minechiro Adachi. Japanese Minis
ter to Belgium, budgetary and finan-
cial questions
Hurluff Zahle of Denmark, social
and general questions.
{. j. A. Enckell. Finnish ministe er
to France, political questions.
Vice Presidents Picked.
The election of the six vice presi-
dents of the assembly resulted in the
choice of the following:
Leon Bourgeois. France; Lord Par
| moor, England; ex-Premier Salandra
of Italy; Count Skrynsky. foreign
minister of Poland; Francisco j. Ur-
rutia. Colombian minister to Switzer-
! land; Tang TsaiFou, Chinese minis
ter to Switzerland.
The election of NJ. Duca. one of the
leaders of the Little Entente was in
terpreted in the assembly as strength
en1ng the forces behind France In
support of the pact of mutual assist l.
ance. Poland, CzechoSloNakia and Ru
mania had all insisted that the present
pact should be made stronger so as to
afford more effective and prompter
military assistance to the small coun-
tries. Rumania particularly insists
upon fortifying the military assist
ance feature.
L. $. Reply disappointing.
The refusal of the United States
Government TO follow the discussion
of the committee on arms traffic con-
troll before the commission of the
league assembly was one of the
chief subjects of comment in Geneva
last night. The comment became
general when the league. after the
reception of Washington's refusal
/ made public the text of the official
invitation sent to Washington. which
declared that the members of the
council of the league were in agree
ment that the presence of a repre-
sentative of the United States Gov
eminent would be of great value.
League officials said last night tha
the disappointment over the Ameri-
can refusal was all the greater be-
cause everybody connected with the
league had expected an affirmative
answer.
Tone of Reply Friendly.
Having begun collaborating with
the league on the arms traffic uues-
tion. it seems only natural, in the
view of the officials, to expect the
l nited States to continue collabora-
tion until the work was concluded
They added that, although the tone
of the American reply was friendly
it seemed peculiar. because of the
announced American policy that the
United States would cooperate with
the league whenever possible, on Spe-
cial matters interesting America.
The invitation to the Washington
Government set forth that the posi-
tion of the United States on the
question of arms traffic had been con-
sidered as an important factor by the
assembly. by the council and its ex-
pert commissioners and that the
members of the council felt that the
fullest opportunity should be afforded
the United states to follow every step
in the development of the question.
"Therefore. it would be of the
greatest Importance for the success
of the work" continued the invita- :
ton. that representative of the
Government of the United States
should be present during the meet
ings of the third commission of the
assembly and the presence of an