Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-19
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BY the Associated Press.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September
ia Japanese reserva ton that the
employment of pacific means for the
settlement of all kinds of disputes
between nations applies only to men,
bers of the League of Nations caused
a furry today when the League
Assembly disarmament committee ap-
proved the Polish project for out
lawry of all wars of aggression.
The Polish resolution. as finally
voted, provides that all wars of
aggression are and will be forbidden,
that pacific means should be utilized
for the settlement of conflicts, what
ever their nature" arising between
nations, and that the Assembly de-
clares that there is obligation for all
members of the League to conform to
these principles.
Would Limit Resolution.
Harukazu Nagaoka, Japanese Am
bassador to Germany, moved to add
to this statement the words '.in their
mutual relations .
Other members of the committee
remarked that members of the league
are already prevented by covenant
from resorting to wars of aggression,
and the Salvador representative,
Senior Guerrero, pointed out that the
Japanese amendment would have the
regrettable result of limiting the
Polish principle of the employment
of the pacific means to states affiliated
r not n0t
non-members.
The committee interpreted Senor
Guerrero's statement as particularly
an allusion to the United States and
to the relations between Japan and
the United States as a non-member
of the League.
The Japanese representative there
upon withdrew his statement. He
said he agreed that aggressive war
was prohibited as against all nations
whether members or non-members of
the League, out believed tha- appllca-
ton of the provision for the employ
ment of pacific means might be diff
ficult as between members and non
members.
Manufacture of Arms.
He then announced that the Japa'
nese delegation would interpret this
part of the Polish project as applying
only to the relations between members
of the League.
The committee then adopted reso-
luton calling for the convocation OF
an international conference to super
wise the private manufacture of arms
at the earliest possible date, with the
idea voiced also that if the conferences
embraces the subject of publicity for
all manufa whether private or
governmental, this will satisfy coun-
tries, like the United tSates, which in
sist upon the supervision Of govern
mental manufacture and those, like
Italy, which oppose this.
Germany, through Count Won
Bernstorff. introduced a resolution
asking that a general international
conference for the reduction of arma-
ments be convoked before the League
assembly of September. 1928.
The council of the League was oc-
cupied all morning with further dis
cussion Of the Rumanian-Hungaria
controversy over the rights of the lat
ters nationals owning land in Transyl-
Vania.
The insistence of Count Apponyi,
| the Hungarian representative, that
the council is not competent in the
matter and that the question should
/ be referred to the World Court of In
| ternational Justice for an advisory
| opinion featured the session.
Criticizes Hungary.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British
! foreign minister, who headed the COM
mittee which made a report that has
not met with Hungarian approval, Sc
Verely criticized Hungary's attitude,
saying that since the start of the ne.
Sotiations for settling the problem he
has not budged an inch, while Ru.
mania showed a much more concilia-
tory spirit.
The japanese representative spoke
in a similar vein, and the council post
pOned decision nthe matter until
later today.