Evening star., 1926-06-13
Current News Events
Summary of Important National Foreign
and Local Affairs Specially Arranged
for the Convenience of Students.

! opposition Of Brazil and Spain, which
have been opposing Germany's en-
| trance on the ground that her mem.
bership in the league council would
place them in the secondary rank OF
powers, the council convened IN
Geneva last week. The meeting was
marked Immediately by the "sulky
| attitude on the part of Spain and
Brazil, and finally by Brazils with
drawal from the council with the pos
| sible intention of withdrawing later
| from the League Of Nations. The op.
position of Spain and Brazil to the
| classification of Germany i'll the
| league accounted for the failure OF
efforts of the March meeting of the
| council to agree on plan OF reor
| ganiZation Tor the council. which
would come with Germany's member
ship in the league.
An International dispute which sew
eral times threatened to bring on a
war between Turkey and Great Brit
ain. has been settled amicably. Last
| week representatives of the two coun
,iies signed an agreement brought
| about by the League of Nations
! through which the Mosul region is
| awarded to the Kingdom Of Irak
| " iich is under a British mandate.
| United States Senator Borah has
| asked that an inquiry be made into
| The alleged granting of large conces
sions to British interests on the 18th.
mus by the Panama government
The Panama government. however
has let IL be known that 1t does not
| fear any inquiry. as the concessions
have been granted to a private Eng
| lish company in no manner connected
I tlDo t,t. No
cession being for the exploitation OF
! mineral resources.
| The administrative committee oi
| the Federal Council of Churches de
clares that compulsory military train
| ing in schools and colleges is foreign
e. the ideals and aims of our educa
t.onal system" In recommendations
made by the council last week a seri
| Gus study of the question by the
| churches Of the country is urged
| While it was merely an interesting
coincidence, the War Department al
the same time made public figures
| showing the growth of the Reserve
| officers Training Corps. Nineteer
universities and colleges and thirty
live high schools had applied for The
IR. O. r c units, but are unable tC
be supplied because of insufficient
funds
| The United States has evidently
| failed in its effort to settle the dispute
| between chile and Peru over the
provinces of Tacna and africa through
a plebiscite which would record the
| wishes of the voters who live there
| Chile has refused to guarantee falf
voting conditions. and the American r
chief of the plebiscitary commission
| Mai Gen. Iassiter. has introduced a
! resolution declaring that a pleblsclte
| is impossible. Efforts TO settle the
| long standing dispute probably VIII
be directed through other channels
| it is stated.
The Budget Bureau last week sent
recommendations to Congress FOR an
aDpropriation of $350,000. for repairs
| TO the White House, and it became
| known that the repair work ma!
| necessitate the Presidents living IN
| other quarters for possibly SIX months
! while thew are under way. NO sug
\ gestions have been made puoilc as to
| tbe nossible location of the TEN
porary White House. as II VIII ho'
he necessary until next March q
| Turing the British general strike
! -, check for $2,OOO,000 was received
| from Moscow by the Trades Union
! Congress. to be used TO help the
| strikers. 1t was declined ana sen'
hack to Russia. Later the none!
| ,5.s offered directly to the striking
| liners in Great Britain and accepted
rho money. according to the Russians
had been contributed by the hussiA.' II
| miners, but according TO Brltlsh ol.
| fcials who discussed the matter iast
week in Parliament. it was not sem
from Russian miners out from !ne
| Russian government Inc n.n .,,
| government, therefore, sent snarp
| note of rebuke to the Soviet govern
ment last week warning 1t that sucn
a ctions were meddling in Internal al
fairs in Great Britain with the nope
of bringing about a change IN gov
ernment. Such interference IS IN Vlo
lation of the Anglo Russian treaty II
was stated.
Jefferson Meyers OF oregon was
nominated last week for the vacancy
on the United States shipping boaro
caused by the resignation OF Bert T.
| Haney. Mr.. Meyers is Democrat
and a. former State treasurer or ore
| pon. He was recommended to tine
President by Senator McNary, Repub
lican.
The Congregational Church al
Tenth and G streets. now known as
"the Presidents church" because OF
| President Coolidge's membership, was
forced to close its doors last week be
| cause Of weaknesses in the building
which rendered it unsafe for public
assemblage. The congregation has
heen seeking to build a new church
for some time The closing OF the
structure now standing probably will
hasten the construction of the new
| edifice.
ConrrGSS.