Evening star., 1927-09-08
Norwegian Delegate Declares
Leading Nations Settle
Questions in Private.
GERMANY IS GIVEN PLACE
ON MANDATE COMMISSION
Action Called First Step in Restora-
tion of Colonies Lost
by War.
BY the Associated Press.

was renewed IN the Assembly meeting
today when it was learned that the
Polish plan to outlaw war had been
whitfield down over night into so-called
platonic idealism.
c. J. Hambro, president Of the Nor
wegian Chamber Of Deputies, put the
powers. the League and the world
| leaders on the griddle this morning
He declared that his whole cabinet
was disappointed in the failure of the
League of Nations to agree on dis.
armament principles
Opposes Private Conferences.
The statesmen of few great pow.
ers in the League, he continued, often
settled questions in private, and pub.
lie discussion in the council after.
ward was mere formality. He
said that the small nations all are
| waiting and wondering what the lead.
ing nations are going to do about dis.
armament. One difficulty, he remark.
mats at the League meeting and they
are not in favor of publicity"
Mr.. Hambro urged that the meeting
of the disarmament preparatory com.
mission, of which the United States
| is a member, be held in November as
| scheduled, and not be postponed.
The speaker criticised the big pow.
ers for what he said was an apparent
disposition to hog the good jobs Of the
| league secretariat.
In scathing attack on what he
declared was the secrecy of the coun.
Gil Mr.. Hambro charged that a su-
preme council, which really was run.
| ming things and which was confined
to the big powers, had grown up
within the League council. He said
that he doubted whether the League
leaders realized the force of the re-
sentiment which this development in
the League was engendering through
out the world.
Speaker Applauded.
Emphasizing the great interest ION
the other side Of the ocean" in the
move to outlaw war, Mr.. Hambro
made an appeal that the League
should be run in such way that no
great power could long remain out
side.
Mr.. Hanbro's declarations were
greeted by the public at the session
with a volume of applause that has
scarcely ever been exceeded since the
Inauguration Of the League.
Another speaker who expressed the
belief that the League was being al.
lowed to drift backward was Premier
VoldmaraS Of Lithua MIA. He proposed
the naturalization of the Baltic States
as one means Of guaranteeing the
peace of Europe. 49,, =
Nicholas Politis Of Greece defended
the council, insisting that it always
must act prudently. He said he
doubted the wisdom of the Dutch at
tempt to revive the Geneva protocol
and asserted that the world as a whole
was not disposed to accept compul.
sorry arbitration until a system of
penalties against an aggressor nation
became practicable. He expressed
complete confidence in the future Of
the League and in the possibilities of
the reduction of ornaments. He in
sisted, however, that patience was
necessary.
Gist of Peace Proposal.
Seeking to obtain British support for
their proposed general non-aggression
pact, the Polish delegates to the
League Of Nations assembly have con-
sented to a simplification of the text.
Their decision is said to have been
taken after consulting the League
jurists.
The proposed pact, 1t is understood,
now contains only two or three articles,
with preamble. One article declares
that all wars for the solution Of in.
ternational conflicts are henceforth
forbidden. Another provides that all
international conflicts must be settled
by pacific means. A third will prob
ably stipulate that, pending real re-
duction of ornaments. the nations
agree not to increase their armaments.
Assertions that competitive arma-
ments create an atmosphere of war
and that reduction of ornaments must
be doggedly fought for and achieved
were the high points of addresses at
the assembly yesterday.
The Japanese delegate. Mineichfro
Adachi, said Japan ardently desired
that ruinous competition in arma.
ments should be brought to a stand.
still and lowered to a level strictly
essential to national security. He
pledged his country's cooperation
with the Leagues preparatory dis.
armament commission, while another
speaker, Erich Lofgren, foreign min.
lister of Sweden, insisted it was USE
less to convoke anew before the great
military powers settled the divergen-
cies of views which had appeared at
previous meetings of the commission.
M. Lofgren criticized the council of
the League for it's passive attitude on
political problems in the past year.
alluding, it is believed. to the con-
troversy between Italy and Jugo.
slavia, and showed no terror Of the
great powers when he scourged the
practice Of certain members Of the
League in discussing burning political
questions among themselves.
"This," he said, has not disApated
the fears Of those who believed that
enlargement of the council would in.
crease the danger that important po.
litical questions would be withheld
from the decisions of the council and
would be transferred to an inner cir
Gle of representatives of certain
powers only"
Germany on Mandate Body.
What was said in league circles to
be the first step toward exentual
restoration of one or more of Ger.
manys colonies, which were lost to
her as a result of the war, was taken
today when Germany was assured q
seat on the League of Nations man.
date commission. supervising her for.
mer colonies.
This came an the result Of a decision
Of the council this afternoon, to in-
crease the membership OF the com.
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