Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-27
ARMS PLEA MARKS
CLOSING OF LEAGUE
Desire for Reduction to Bring
Cut Soon, Retiring Pres
ident Says.

| by the ASSoc13teu ETe>e'
GENEVA, Switzerland, September
| 27.-The desire to reduce armaments,
far from weakening in the face of
difficulties. has asserted it's strength
and continues to inspire the League
Assembly" declared President Alberto
r. Gauni Uruguayan Minister to
France. in the closing address before
the eighth assembly of the League
of Nations today. After he finished
speaking the Assembly took final ad-
journment.
The retiring president of the Assem-
blv said that the work done at this
session toward disarmament was such
that ''in the near future we shall OBJ
tain the first reduction in armaments
and better definition of the, guaran-
tees of security
The people of the New World repre-
sented in the League, who so long
have been faithful to arbitration as
the basis of their friendly relations
and pacific development, he said,
hailed with delight the discovery that
the Locarno movement was bearing
fruit and promised to be initiated by
other mowers than the Locarno sigma
tories.
Desire for Cooperation Shown.
Throughout your discussions has
run the thread of single idea, the
retiring president told the delegates.
THE development of international CO.
operation in every field was that idea.
In the sphere of international law the
peoples beyond the seas are making d
most valuable contribution, and 1t is
at their insistence that you have de.
cided to continue work in this dlrec.
tion."
The League this year, President
Guani said. had really undertaken a
new program in the economic field and
real success had been registered.
You may wait with confidence"
he concluded, for you have entered
in resolute spirit upon the endless road
OF progress. You may hope without
fear or apprehension and carry home
q smiling vision, no longer so remote,
of the fair harvest you will reap after
YOUR sowing You have acted"
The eighth session of the league
assembly then took final adjournment
at 1920 pm.
Codification Continued.
Insistence by the Latin American
and Scandinavian delegates that codi-
fication of international law must not
be allowed to drop caused contro-
versy in the League commission last
ing until the early morning hours
today.
1t ended in a victory for the Latin
Americans, who demanded sufficient
credits to make codification efforts
permanent. thus reversing the decision
of the assembly yesterday that the
funds which had been requested were
not available.
The assembly today approved the
appointment of jurists to prepare for
the codification conference at the
League, especially stipulating that
the jurists should take into account
the "extensive and remarkable effort
at codifcation made by the Pan
American Union"
War Guilt Reopening Opposed.
The foreign ministers of both France
and Germany who attended the
League sessions are pictured as de-
crying any reopening of the war guilt
question and as determined not TO let
recriminations over that issue inter
fere with the growing Franco-German
rapprochement indicated by the re-
cent negotiation of a commercial
treaty.
NJ. BRAND and DR.. Stresemann have
discussed at length the controversies
carried on in the French and German
press after President Won linden
burg's Tannenberg speech, in which
he denied the charge Of Germany's
war guilt contained in the Versailles
treaty and declared she stood ready TO
prove her innocence.
Their conclusions are epitomized in
this way: Let us glorify our war
heroes all we like and magnify their
exploits, but let us not reopen the
question of who started the war in
which they fell"