Evening star., 1928-12-14
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70 70 INTERVENTION
Tension Is Believed Reduced
Through Acceptance of Plan
for Expert Study.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LUCIANO, December f4.-Tension In
the Baltic appeared today. to have been
reduced.
Premier ;sWaldemaras of Lithuania,
making the first moderate speech since
the outbreak of his country's dispute
with Poland over the Wilma question,
ANNOUNCED to the Council Of the League
Of Nations that he would accept reso-
mtion ifor examination of the Baltic
situation by technical experts of the
League. : He paid tribute to the role
that Foreign Minister BRAND of France,
as president,.of of the Council, played i'll
bringing about international co-cpera-
ton and Cancellation. -
M. BRAND, backed by Count Qui-
nones de Leon of Spain, official re-
porter on the controversy, Abored late
at night and succeeded iri<iIlducil1g the
Lithuanian premier to accept League
h1terventiont which had been shorn of
any character of implied menace of
penalties against Lithuania. ,
Conflict Enters Technical Field.
The :confiict vas. removed from the
aAngeScuS domain Of politics and put
into the technical field by decisaon
of thc Council to have the League COM
mittee on communications and transitS
strive for restoration of normal railway
relations between Lithuania and Poland.
These are now cut. =,
The committee also seeks to restore
normal conditions on the Nieman River,
which flows through Lithuania to
Memel from Poland.
Today's actien means that the crisis
over the sovereignty of Wilma has at
least been avoided temporarily with
the hope that Litf1uania and, Poland
may be brought together on the basis
Of mutually beneficial economic agree
ments.
The League council gave further evi-
4ence of belief that proper solution of
economic problems consolidates peace
The council decided to appoint COM
enittee: of experts to examine the causes
Of fluctuations in the purchasing power
of gold and their effects on the eco
noa1ic life of nations. An American
probably will be named on this commit
tee. %e
Decide ON Bolivian Cancellation
A policy OF Cancellation in the Bo-
Gvian-Paraguayan crisis will be pur-
sued by the League council.
On suggestion Of President BRAND
the council decided to send to Paraguay
any cablegrams. received from Bolivia
and to forward to Bolivia the message
already received from Paraguay regard
ing her Willingness to accept concflia-
ton. NJ: BRAND said he believed this
was the loyal thing to do under the cir-
cumstaslces, and all the members as
eented without discussion.
Apparently seeking advice from the
Council ss to what should be done in
the event the. South American dis
pute should take on an unexpected de-
velopnlent after tomorrow's probable
adjournment of that body, M. BRAND
remarked. that it might be well to make
ARRANGEMENTS for future action. This
question was held over until tomorrow,
with the optnion prevailing among
many members That Eriand. who will
continue as president until the March
sessions, should be empowered to adopt
any measures he might deem desirable.
Takes Issueslw lw1th b. S.sss4and.
The Cou1eH today approved -: let
ter which will be sent to Washington
taking Issue with recent American crfti-
ton. II declares that this convention
does not destroy the Hague treaty,
but reSnforces and extends It.
The letter contends that the Geneva
agreement embodies the furthest@ ad-
vance practicable at this time.
Although the United States withdrew
from the Geneva opium conference. the
council felt 1t SHOULD be represented on
the central board created by the treaty.
and selected Herbert L. May Of PENN
sylvania. Other countries represented
are Great Britain, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Finland and India.
During today'S session Senor Urrutia
of Colombia was appointed one of nine
jurists to study revision Of the statutes
Of the World Court Of Justice. An
American viii later be selected. League
officials said today that he undoubted-
" would be George w. Wickershanl
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