Evening star., 1927-09-09
Threatens to Place Assembly
on Record If Powers Re-
ject New Draft.
GERMANY VOTED SEAT
ON MANDATES BODY
Belgian Foreign Minister Urges
That Aggressions Be Made Crimes
and That World Disarm.


GENEVA, Switzerland, September
9.-Poland seems determined to force
a clear.cut decision by the League of
Nations on the question of outlawing
war.
Her representatives have submitted
a new draft of a non-aggression pact
and have let it be known that IL the
great powers fail to approve 1t, Poland
will introduce a more drastic one
with the idea of putting the League
Assembly on record as to whether it
desires a genuine anti-war pact or
merely a meaningless expression of
idealism.
The new draft declares that "every
war of aggression is and will be for
bidden," and adds:
THE Assembly declares that the
members of the League of Nations
are under obligation to obey this
principle. and requests them to nego-
tiate pacts of non-aggression inspired
with the idea that pacific means
should be employed for the settlement
of differences, whatever might be
their nature"
Financial Plan Favored.
The war of aggression question also
came up in the League Council yes
terday when Sir Austen Chamberlain
British foreign secretary, gave con-
ditional approval to a plan to extend
organized financial assistance for any
nation which was made the victim of
such aggression. lie remarked that
his country would want to see
tangible reduction of ornaments be-
fore supporting the plan.
Under the project, which was draft
ed by the Leagues financial commit
tee and now goes to the assembly, an
attacked nation would be able to con-
tract a loan on the general security Of
its revenues, with the assistance of an
international guarantee to be con-
tanned in a convention which would be
open TO all nations. The various coun-
tries, however, would be required To
sign the convention to benefit from
the arrangement.
Germany ON Mandate Body.
A move which may result in the re-
turn to Germany of one or more of the
colonies she lost in the World War
was made when the council voted to
increase the number of members in
the mandate commission from nine to
ten, and to give the extra seat to Ger
many.
Addressing the League Assembly to-
day, with the delegates strung to high
tension by the attacks of the smaller
powers who charge that the League is
neglecting to fulfill it's mission of pO-
lItical mediation, M. Vandervelde, Bel.
gian Socialist foreign minister, de-
clared amid great applause that he
was ready to support adoption of a
resolution embodying the memorable
utterance of the late Jean Leon Juares
that wars of aggression are a crime
against humanity. Uuares, noted So
cialist leader, was asSaSSinated in
Paris on July 81, 1919
Pleading for unfaltering efforts to
the end that reduction of armaments
might be achieved, M. Vandervelde in
a stentorian voice almost shouted
THE world must disarm"'
Referring to tho charges by the
smaller powers that the League Coun-
Gil was side-stepping it's political du-
ties, he admitted that ii would be dis
quieting if the council were to discuss
only minor matters, but, he argued,
the League is not a super-state and
the council is not a government which
who comprise the League.
Disarmament Action Urged.
NJ. Vandervelde urged the approval
of the Netherlands resolution to revive
the examination of the principles of
arbitration, security and disarmament
of the Geneva protocol. He insisted
that it would be folly to postpone con.
sideration of these great problems, say
ing that if they are not realiZable to-
day, they will be tomorrow.
NJ. Vandervelde said he was con-
vinced that the check in the disarma-
ment neg. .tSt tions was only temporary.
for he was certain that the will of the
peonje would eventually force their
governments to remove the danger of
competitive ornaments. once the gov
ernments felt that they had achieved
national security. Security. however,
called for guarantees, asserted NJ. Van
deryelde, and the great work of the
League was to devise q system of
guarantees which would tranquilize
the human race by eliminating the
danger of wars.
The spokesman of the French dele
CATION. headed by Foreign Minister
BRAND, declined either to confirm or
deny a newspaper report from London
today that France soon would follow
in the footsteps of Great Britain and
sever diplomatic relations with the
Russian Soviet government. The
spokesman added that the situation
did not permit of comment at this
time and that it would be hazardous
to make any prediction as to what
would happen.
GASTON MEANS CHARGE