Evening star., 1927-09-06
LEAGUE ASSEMBLY
WILL SEEK METHOD
TOCUT ARMAMENTS
Question Becomes Vital Fol-
lowing Collapse of Tripar-
tite Naval ParIey.
UNIVERSAL PEACE PACT
PUT FORWARD BY POLES
Debate Expected to Occur Soon
After Conference Gets Well
Under Way.

GENEVA. Switzerland, September
e.-The League of Nations Assembly
which opened it's eighth annual meet
ing Yesterday. is determined. before its
adjournment. to find out what can be
accomplished toward a general reduc'
ton of ornaments. That is the clean
cut impression cleaned from the talk
IN the lohhies and on the Assembly
floor itself.
The failure Of the tripartite naval
conference, in which the United States
was represented a bare month ago
end the nrevious setbaCks encountered
hv the Leagues own Preparatory DIS
armament Commission have made the
armament question vital topic OF
discussion.
A "full dress debate" in which For
eign Minister Stresemann promises 70
eynonnd Germany's disarmament
slows and either Foreign Minister
Briand or NJ. Paul-Boncour, France s.
With other nations delegates lntefVen-
Ing from time to time, seems lneNltapie
fairly early in the present session
The question will come up hrst IN the
Assembly committee designated LOT
the study of disarmament and later
on the floor of the convention.
Non.AggressiOn Pact.
Also there is an as yet undrafteo
Polish suggestion for a general non
aggression pact designed TO outlaw
var. and somewhat similar 10 the paC'
forming the subject of the converse
tions between NJ. Bri--nd ana the
American Secretary of State
not Ia denendent upon the League
STRUCTURE or even upon the Locarno
treaty. though it might in a sense
e;rencthen the latter.
However. the Germans and Britlsh
view il askance even in Its preseht
rebulous form, as they fear II Wouiu
tend to make perpetually bindlng the
nresent territorial limits, notably 70
lnnd's own western frontier.
Germany certainly is not satisfed
with her present frontier. and Great
Britain. ever since the days OF the
Lloyd George government, has been
determined not to be drawn into any
arrangement by which she might be
even theoretically obliged to defend
the boundaries of the new Poland.
Canad Seeks Admission.
Canada's candidacy for a non-per-
manent seat in the League OF Ma
tions Council has been announced by
the Dominion delegation. 1t is un-
derstood that this attitude is in keep.
Ing with the belief of the various
British dominions that they have a
right to representation in the council
despite the fact that the mother
country is a permanent council mem
Der and watches over the interests of
the empire as a whole.
One chief of state, two prime
ministers, eighteen foreign ministers
and nine other statesmen of cabinet
rank are participating in the assem-
bly,, which settled down today to at
least three weeks work.
Besides these dignitaries, the dele
gates and alternates now in Geneva
include 50 ministers plenipotentiary
and ENJOYS of their governments.
There are six full-fledged ambassa
doris. II senators from various lands
and climes and 30 plain deputies, con-
gressmen or members of Parliament,
although two of these should be ad-
dressed mfr. Speaker
An Array of Titles.
The British dominions are respon-
sible for three high commissioners
and there are Is officers of high army
or navy rank. while those delegates
sporting titles of nobility, inherited or
acquired. and ranging from prince
and maharajah to plain knight. num-
ber 81.
The chief of state in question is
President Giuseppe Motta of SwitZer-
land. Lithuania and little Luxem-
bourg are represented by their pre-
miers, while the foreign ministers are
headed by the so-called big three" ="
BRAND of France, Sir Austen Cham