Evening star., 1927-09-15
Cuba and Finland Also Get
Places on Council, as 49
States Ballot.
BELGlANS LOSE OUT
ON ELIGIBILITY VOTE
Move Seen to Obtain U. S, Aid in
Case of Martial Action
Against Aggressor Nations.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVT. September 15.--Canada
Cuba and Finland today were elected
to fill the three vacant non permanent
seats on the Council of the League
of Nations for three-year terms.
The assembly voted today that Bel
gium was not eligible at the present
time for reelection as non-perma
nent member Of the League Council.
Forty-nine states took part in the
voting. Cuba received 40 votes, Fin.
land 33 and Canada %, Canada receiv.
ing one vote more than the necessary
absolute majority of IS.
Belgium, Salvador ard CZechoslo.
vakia were elected last year for one.
year terms under the new general
system of election, one provision of
which is that non-permanent members
could be reelected when their term
expired provided the assembly by a
three-Quarter vote declared them re.
eligible.
Belgium received 90 votes TODAY
with 10 against, this being tantamount
" uClcdL LUZ IG-cI6CJlOn.
Pledges Support to league.
Foreign Minister Vandervelde. the
Belgian representative, in brief
speech, said that he considered the
votes against Belgiums candidacy
were inspired by considerations of
principle and not by unfriendliness
for hiC country In TJ.1
loyal support of the League as here
tofore.
The presence Of President King OF
Liberia on the assembly floor was
noted in his opening remarks by AL
herto GUAM, president of the assem-.
bly,. President King received an ova.
tion.
communication from the Joint
foreign committee of the Jewish
Board of Deputies and the Anglo.
Jewish Associa ton, submitted by
Lucien Wolf, their special delegate.
declared that these organizations be-
lieved that If any nation which was
bound by treaties to care for minority
nations became a candidate for the
Council. such nation should not be
recognized as eligible for election un.
til the assembly was satisfied that
had fulfilled all its obligations toward
those committed to it's care.
THE election Of any state known
to be defaulter in it's obligations to-
ward a minority people committed to
its care would have a deplorable eff
feet on the various minorities through.
out Eastern Europe" the communica.
ton declared. THE confidence OF
these minorities would be undermined
and they might be thrown back on
methods of vindicating their rights.
which might prove a menace to the
general peace"
u. 8. Influence Stressed.
A feature of the discussions of the
assembly has been the importance at
tached by numerous speakers to the
influence Of American public opinion
on hopes for settlement of interna.
tlonal questions aimed at the promo.
ton Of permanent peace. This despite
member Of the League.
The latest indication of this atti.
tude was the address of M. Politis
Greek statesman. yesterday before
the commission which Is studying DR.
Fridtjof Nansens project to outlaw
war by a voluntary universal arbi
tration agreement.
M. Politis urged Americans to de
velop the movement, which he said
t,a1 rtx,ip i,x T,xst trI
for an agreement that in time of wal
the neutral powers would renounce
to a certain extent their rights OF
neutrality in case the League powers
took military action against any ag
gressor nation.
Holds America Could Aid.
The idea behind this suggestion is
that the United States, if unable tc
join the League, would help that or
ganization by refraining from trading
with or helping economically or flnan
cially any nation which the League
powers declare to he an aggressor
and meriting of punishment.
Last evenings session of the assem-
bly's disarmament committee was
marked by the declaration from Count
Won Bernstorff, wartime German Am
bassadOr to the United States, that
the Leagues preparatory disarmament
commission should hurry its work
along and get something accom-
plished.
The people of the world, he said
were beginning to say that so much
talk about security" was merely an
excuse for not reducing arms.
Speaking in French, he caused some
what of a sensation by quoting let
to the German peace delegation in
June, 1919. saying that the allied and
associated powers considered the en-
forced disarmament of Germany un
der the treaty of Versailles as pre-
lminary step toward more general
disarmament"
Since that time, he added, nothing
has been done in the line of real dis.
armament" and the nations with the
exceptions Of those vanquished in the
war. stand practically where they did
in 1914.