Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-26
LEAGUE BOLSTERS
KELLOGG TREATY
Adjourns After Deciding to
Ask All Nations to Sign
General Act"

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA. September 26.-The ninth
Assembly of the League of Nations
wound up It's work and adjourned short
ly after noon today.
The last hours of the session were
marked by rather bitter exchange be-
tween Count Albert Apponyi of Hun
gary, and delegates of the little entente
countries.
Last night Count Apponyi had ap-
proved proposals to forward conciliation
and arbitration as method of settling
disputes between Hungary and her
neighbors. But he rejected a commit
tee resolution recommending treaties Of
non-aggression and mutual assistance.
Take Up Challenge.
He said that Hungary, in view of her
disarmed and defenseless position. could
not seriously undertake the obligations
that would be incurred under such
treaties.
Today N. P. Commene of Rumania
and DR.. Stefan Osusky of Czecho-
slovakia took up Count Apponyis chal-
lenge. They successfully mounted the
tribune Of the Assembly and denied that
there was any lack of spirit for con-
ciliation on the part of their countries
or Jugoslavia, the third member of the
little entente. DR.. Osusky said he was
confident that the spirit of the League
0f Matt otHd ,1yn,Ild y.o-
suit in harmonization of all differences.
The general act" framed by Nicholas
Politis of Greece. as a reinforcement of
the Kellogg pact for the remuneration
of war, was approved by the assembly.
Under this general act" the SignatOry
nations-and all the world Is to be in
vited to Sign-would undertake to set
tie all disputes between themselves by
pacific means. They would use commits
Sions Of Cancellation. the judicial proce-
dure of the international court or SIM
liar tribunals. or the services of arbi-
traitors, as the case might demand. The
signstories, however. would be author
lied to reserve from operation of the
act disputes on any subject which they
considered of strictly domestic jurisdic-
ton.
Lauds Frankness.
In declaring the assembly closed. its
president, Herluf Zahle, Danish minister
to Germany, lauded the frankness with
which some of the questions had been
discussed.
The assembly has been noteworthy
for the general atmosphere rejecting
determination in all sections of the
world that war shall not again plague
mankind. While the assembly has found
hn Nf el0
received plain warnings from organiza-
tions representing millions of men and
women which presented memorials in
sisting that there be no faltering in de-
termination to achieve reduction in
ornaments.
This ninth Assembly of the League
was characterized ct the outset by the
general praise bestowed on the Kellogg
BRAND pact, although the legal COM
mittee of the Assembly later declined to
cite that treaty as a contribution to
international law. The committee held
that the pact contained no machinery
fer the settlement of disputes and there
lore was not necessarily an impetus to
compulsory arbitration.
Disarmament Omniprcsent. g,
With the disarmament problem prom
incnt in official discussions and in side
line talk, particularly becau- of the un-
published Franco-BritiSh naval accord,
the biggest question treated at Geneva
was really settled outside the Assembly
This developed when statesmen of the
big six" decided to liquidate all the
problems inherited from the World War
by finding solutions for the delicate
issue of evacuation of the Rhineland
and the question of German war rep
arations. Yet disarmament was con-
stantly in the forefront. DR.. j. Loudon
of Holland, president of the preparatory
disarmament commission. caused one
of the big sensations of the Assembly
by proposing that the five big naval
powers-the United States. Great Brit
ain. France. Japan and Italy-meet him
In private parley and try to wipe out
the differences respecting naval limita-
tions that have been dividing them.
The Assembly adopted this proposal
in principle, for DR. Loudon was given
instructions to keep contact with these
governments and to convoke the pre-
paratory commission early in 1929.
Among other actions of the Assembly
we're these:
1t decided to send a commission of
experts to study the opium evil in the
Far East
It denied China semi-permanent
seat In the Council of the League and
elected Spain to such position. Ven-
e5uela and Persia were chosen for
t'arae~reer tarssas GA the CsuneA,