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proved by the committee, has been
divided under two headings. Arbitra
ton treaties md Security agreements.
The program ihclttdes e study of the
means of promoting such. accords md
suitable ways of cU-ordinating such
sgreementsasoS as 10 bring them in
harmony wifhsthe IseagJe covenant.
A draft optional convention of obliga
tory arbitration of all disputes was
Particularly mentioned.
M. Politis of Greece was appointed
O special reporter on questions of Sc
curity. NJ. Rutgers Of Holland on ques-
tions relating to articles, of the cove
nant and NJ. Hossti of Holland on
problems relatinggto arbitration These
three will prepare exhaustive. state
ments. with recommendations which
will be considered at the next meeting
of the committee.
League Power Scored. !.
The tension in Southern Europe
caused by riyalry over Albania had an
echo in today sasession of the commit
tee. when M. Markovitch, Jugoslavian
representative cited the case, of AL
bania as 9proving that the existing
League OF Nations system of guaran.
tees was absolutely ina dequats.
NJ Markoyitch recalled thai Afhanian
independents has been soleninly guar.
anteed by 4rsAt powers and that
was likewise Guaranteed territorial in.
tegrity. yet Albania felt that her ma.
tional security was so feeble that 'she
believed it imperative to have recourse
to special alliances with Italy,"
Apparently. declared NJ. Markovitch.
neither Albania nor Italy deemed
League protection sufficient. He added
that Jugoslavia only desired to con-
tinue friendly relations with Albania.
The committee held it's first session
yesterday. 1t was promptly warned
by Joseph -Bdneour. chairman of
the French Parliamentarv Commission
OF National Defense and president of
the foreign relations committee of the
Chamber of Deputies. that regional
agreements are becoming a menace to
world peace because they tend to in
troduce the pre-war system of alli-
ances.
Sees Rap at Treaty.
The committee sees in this an al
fusion to the Italo-Albanian pact,
which the French concede to be i'm op-
position to the Franco-Jugoslavian n
treaty of amity and arbitration, rati-
fed shortly before.
NJ. Paul Boncour asserted that all
regional pacts must be co-ordinated
and brought within the scope of the
League of Nations and that efforts
must centralize in building up a gen.
eral agreement for security which
would prevent misunderstandings
Russia, represented by an observer.
and not participating in the security
committee meetings, nevertheless
contributed an admonition that the
frenZed piling up of armaments am
ply justifies the fear of another gigan-
tic war. The admonition was con-
tained in a supplementary communi-
cation which Maxim Litvinoff. head of
the Soviet delegation. deposited with
the preparatory disarmament commits
sion.
Litvinoff did not spare Americans
in his general condemnation of what
he termed a dangerous state of affairs,
especially mentioning the advocacy BY
some Americans of the use of poison
gas. Litvinoff seemingly thought a
great deal about the United States
when he penned his communication.
for he warned that the well known
expert. Gen. Frey, was convinced that
an aero-chemical bomb weighing 1000
pounds and charged with lewisite
could render 10 districts of New York
uninhabitable, while hundreds of tons
of lewisite dropped from so airplanes
would make all of New York unin
habitable for at least on week.