Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-02

menselJ increase and expedite the
Leagues activity in the direction of
disarmament. arbitration and security,
and thereto greatly increase the
leagues power. and those mo less pro.
Tossing devotion to the ideal of Pax
Universe Eft Aeterna) who would have
the League move slowly and discreetly
In these matters, above all avoiding
the imputatlOn of super-state aims
The latter group won.
The attempt to Turkish I'D and recon.
mend the unadopted protocol of 1924
fell with sickening thud before the
fiat opposition of the British delega-
ton, who apprehended as q main re-
suit of institution of the protocol use
of the British Navy as the Leagues
chief police force. The assembly ap-
proved institution of committee of
35 members instructed to work out
plans looking to realization of the
recommendations of the International
Economic Conference held last Spring.
Membership on the committee will
be offered to Americans in a private
capacity. Or else (the dispatches are
obscure on the matter) the permanent
economic committee of the League
(Which has done such fine work. is to
be suitably enlarged SO as to under
take the specialized function above
Indicated.
Here Is a sensible development. A
committee Is to be appointed subsidi.
airy and to work in closest asso-
citation with the Preparatory Disarma-
ment Commission, the business of
which shall be to study the problems
Of arbitration and security in rela-
ton to the problem of disarmament
The French theses won out in the as
sembly, that security must precede
general disarmament. We are rep
resented on the commission, and the
representation on the committee will
be offered to our Government.
Canada, Cuba and Finland were
elected to temperament membership
on the League Council In place Of
CzechoSlovakia, Salvador and Bel
GUM. The permanent members of
the council are Great Britain, France,
Germany. Italy and Japan. The non.
permanent members at present are
Canada. Chile. China. Colombia, Cuba,
Finland, Holland, Poland and Ru
mania. The election of Canada is
of peculiar interest, because she Is
a member of the British common.
wealth of nations, and because with
her election the North American
continent for the first time came to
be represented on the council. The
very able Senator Raoul Dandurand,
who was president of the 1925 as.
sembly. represents Canada on the
council.
A striking incident Of the session
was the announcement by q Persian
representative of the decision of the
Persian government to curtail Persia's
opium production by 10 per cent an
nually during the next three years.
This means that Persia must bestir
herself to make good the loss to the
national economy involved in the cur.
tailment OF opium export. To this
end she Will endeavor to apply the
recommendations made by the League
OF Nations Commission. headed by
Frederick A. Delano, which has been
surveying the country: as follows In
chief; substitution Of food crops and
silk production for opium production;
adoption of better agricultural meth
DDS; development of home industries:
transportation improvements. Much
may be hoped of Persia under the
guidance Of so enlightened and ener.
getic ruler as the new Shah.
The assembly unanimously passed
the Polish resolution which declares
that 'all wars of aggression are and
always shall be prohibited and every
pacific means must be employed to
settle disputes of every description
which may arise between States"
Primo De Rivera Is reported as ex-
pressing himself very, very disrespect-
fully concerning the League of Ma
tons. as declaring 1t mo better than
a Casino" and as talking. merely talk.
ing, to no purpose.