Evening star., 1927-09-07
COUNCIL Of LEAGUE
ASSA|LED FOR LACK
OF MEDIATE ACTION
Swedish Foreign Minister De-
nounces Failure to Act
in Recent Disputes.
FEARS GENEVA ASSEMBLY
WILL LOSE HIGH MISSION
Demands Impressive Dictum That
Disarmament Must Be
Brought About.
81 the Associated press

An attack on the Council of tha
League of Nations for its failure to in.
tervene in the differences which broke
out among the powers during the last
year. delivered by Foreign Minister
Erich Lofgren Of Sweden, caused a
sensation at today's meeting of the
Assembly Of the League of Nations.
The criticism was interpreted by
most delegates as an allusion to the
fact that the Council did not take up
the controversy between Italy and
Jugoslavia.
Mr.. Lofgren said that the Locarno
accord and the entry of GERMANY into
the League had inspired the world.
wide hope that the League had in.
creased in strength and prestige. How.
ever, the Leagues recent attitude, con.
tlnued the foreign minister, had caused
disappointment, impatience and the
CONVICTION that the great powers were
settling political problems outside the
League. He said he believes that IL
this policy were persisted in, the Coun.
Gil and the League would be exposed
70 the Danger OF losing their high mis-.
sion OF safeguarding world peace.
Demand for Disarmament.
Referring to the failure of the move
Tor the reduction of ornaments. the
foreign minister declared that this
was due to the divergencies between
the great military powers, who should
Immediately Ind a basis for agree.
ment. He demanded that the Assem-
1iy lmpresslVeIy manifest it's will that
disarmament must be achieved.
The gaNnF16 Cfo
today was Poland's informal puhIica.
tlon OF proposal for a general dec.
iaratlon, branding war as an interna.
tional crime.
AS the Polish draft of a pact con.
demning war and all aggression Ivaa
handed BRAND and Chamberlain TODAY
representatives of Nordic lands like
Esthonia and Finland were speaking
from tie rostrum Of the League of Ma.
tions assembly vigorously advocating
the necessity of reviving PRINCIPLES ~
the Geneva protocol, which cali for ex.
tension Of arbitration security and re.
duction Of armament.
Plea for Arbitration.
The Polish text emphasizes a pres.
ent difficulty in defining penalties to
De imposed on aggressor nations and
defining aggression. Under the un.
fatlned Geneva protocol the agressor
power was proclaimed to be one which
refused arbitratio this formula being
largely based on ideas advanced by
James I. Shotwell and David Miller Of
New York, who came to Geneva in an
eftort to advance the international
movement to outlaw war.
The Polish project advances the
thought that the best way to attain
the goal of peace is by developing a
policy of arbitration.
Speakers at today's assembly in.
cluded Rafael Erich, former premier of
Finland; Frederick Akel, foreign minis
ter of Esthonia; Felix Cielens, foreign
minister of Lativa; Jonas Lofgren, for.
eisn minister Of Sweden.
The League assembly would be com.
mltted to a new study of the arbitra.
ton, security and disarmament prin-
ciples of the Geneva protocol of
1924 under a resolution introduced by
the Dutch foreign minister, Jonkheer
Beelaerts Van Bloklands. This de-
velopment increased the probability Of
an early debate on disarmament.
The resolution reads: THE assembly,
convinced that without reopening dis.
cussions of the Geneva protocol of
1924, it is desirable to ascertain IL
the moment has not come to resume
study OF the principles which formed
the basis of that observation-disclosures
1t or the highest Importance that the
assembly stimulate the labors of the
preparatory commission for general
diSarmament-decides to turn over n
study of the fundamental PRINCIPLES
of the Geneva protocol and the con-
clusions Of the report of the prepara.
tory commission to the appropriate
committees"
Urges Protocol Plan.
M. Paul-Boncour Of France, one Of
the trainers of the protocol, told The
newspaper men: This proposition is
more concrete than the Polish one."
1t tends to back our contention
that disarmament will not be accom-
pllshed until security is first assured
he continued. Moreover, it shows
that many people hostile or luul;e.
warm to the Geneva protocol are be.
ginning to see that the international
organization of security is the only
way out of the present difficulties"
Ihe new development supports the
previous forecast that a full dress"
debate covering what has already
been attempted and what it is hoped
to accomplish in the way Of arms
limitation, will be an outstanding fea-
ture of the present assembly.
The Dutch proposal, characterized
by observers as simple and concrete.
has been put up to the assembly be.
fore the tentative Polish project for
a non-aggressive pact could be re.
duced to black and white. and before
the somewhat analogous finish pro-
poSal, first raised in the Leagues pre-.
paratory disarmament commission,
could be retouched and again present