New Britain herald., 1930-07-26
LEAGUE HAS TOUGH
 LANGUAGE DUTIES
Must Protect Minority Rights in
 15 Countries

Geneva. July 26 (UP)-The lin- guistic policeman of the Tower Of Babel had a day off in comparison with the job of the League of Ma lions in protecting the linguistic rights of the European authorities At the present time the 1eague IS charged with enforcing linguistic equality for minority populations in no less than 15 European states. The great bulk of these obliga- tions were turned over to the league by the Paris peace confer ence which in drawing up the peace treaties inserted clauses guaranteeing the linguistic rights Of the minority populations that were created by the "Balkanization" of ! Europe and imposed upon the newly crated states as well as the van quished.
 The bulk of the remainder of these obligations, the league vol untarily wished onto itself before it knew juA how much trouble it was getting into.
 AS various new states, created by the peace treaties, applied to the league for admission, the lat ter imposed on them minority clauses similar to those included in the Paris peace treaties.
 Finally the league has the su- pervison also Of various treaties that were voluntarily entered into by states between themselves to guarantee the linguistic rights of their respective minorities.
 The states which up to the pres ent time have assume1 obligations to guarantee the linguistic rights Of minority populations are Albania Austria. Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia the Free City of lDantzig, Estonia Finland Greece, Hungary, Latvia Lithuania and Memel, Poland Roumania. Yugoslavia and Tur. key
 In a general way the bulk oi these minorities are confined tc certain well defined linguistic groups such as the Jews, the Mos. lems, Russians, Armenians an( others, yet through all of these states that have assumed minority obligation there is a sprinkling O other small groups that makes tn, leagues task an exceedingly com plicated one.
 ln|Turkey, for example. the prin cipal linguistic minorities are tn, Greeks, Jews and Armenians.<
 Along the newly created Russian border states the minority elemen is naturally Russian. although i, the case of Poland there are als, the Jewish element and the bi; German element
 As regard the latter. Poland an, Germany have facilitated tn, leagues task some by privat, agreements between themselves although as matter of fact tn. great bulk Of minority petition that come before the leagu, emanate from the Polish minorit, in Germany and the German minor ity in Poland
 Greece perhaps holds the reco- Tor minorlties although it is sel dom that a minority complain ever comes from Greece 10 tn , league council. In addition [ Jews. Turks, Armenians. Bulgarian , and Serbians. Greece also has mi norlty groups of Moslems Of Alban ian origin but now residing O l Greek territory: the communities 0 Falachs and Pindus and finally. a F Mt. Athos, all of the monaster [ groups that are not of Greek origir
 CzeChoslovakia also has comDli cated obligations which involve be sides the usual minority element that are found in most of the state Of east central Europe. the Czecl Ter and Saxon communities i TransylVania. .and the Ruthene con munlty south of the Carpathians. a The linguistic rights which th league is charged with enforcin Q in all states with minority oblig; = tionS cover three principal points: