Evening star., 1934-09-14
POLAND REbUKED
BY THREE NATIONS
Britain, France and Italy
chide Nation for Stand
on Minorities.
By the Associated Press.

0y tus ASooCheseo Efcos.
GENEVA, September 1l.-Great
Britain, France and Italy took turns
today reproving Poland for her de-
nunciation yesterday of the general
minorities treaty-fearful. neverthe-
less, that an embittered Poland might
still block Russia's admission to the
League Of Nations by refusing to vote
the Soviet Union permanent seat
In the League Council.
The chiding was administered by
Sir John Simon, British foreign secre-
tary; Louis Barthou, French foreign
minister. and Baron Pompeo Aloisi,
Italian delegate 70 the Leag,ie They
directed their orstory in answer 70
Joseph Beck, fortisn minister of 70
land. who had told the Leasue that
Poland henceforth would look out for
her minority populations under her
own laws.
Obligations 10 Minorities.
Sir John told the League Assembly
that Poland cannot disregard her Oh
legations to minorities and that s.arti-
Gle 93 Of the treaty Of Versailles deal
ing with the Polish minorities o,es-
ton. cannot be overlooked"
Barthou, referring to general In.
sinuation made yesterday by Beck.
denied that France had profited by
the mtnorities treaty to interfere with
the sovereign rights Of the sienatory
states and said he regretted that In
his speech Beck had risked placing
the Assembly before the menace Of
q definite decision, for other nations
might be tempted to follow that ex-
ample, imperiling the authority Of
treaties and the mandate intrusted TO
the League Of Nations"
The French foreign minister said
that France as ''the friend and aily
Of Poland" hoped that Beck's address
would not entail such consequences as
Polish antagonism to Russias, en-
trance into the League.
Polish Treaty Attitude.
Barthou said that Becks stand put
Poland ina position Of not respecting
treaties which Poland freely accepted
when she recovered the independence
from which she was unjustly deprived" "
He subsequently corrected the Official
record Of the speech to read treaties
accepted In exchange for her inde-
pendence," thereby making the criti-
cism stronger.
Then Aloisi joined In, saying that
Italy found 1t hard to imagine what
Beck meant by q unilateral denuncia-
ton OF . general treaty.
The Italian policy" said Aloisi
is that existing obligations must be
respected pending their possible fu-
ture revision"
Beck communicated with Warsaw
to determine whether and how he
should reply and the Assembly ad-
journed until later In the day.
Meanwhile reports circulated that
some factions among the citizens of
Switzerland may demand q referen-
dunn Of the people to decide whether
Switzerland shall resign from the
League of Nations In the event of
Russia's election
Soviet Snub Reported.
The Geneva Journal said that
Maxim Litvinof, Soviet foreign COM
missar, angry over the difficulties Of
admission, snubbed Barthou, hang
ing up In the midst Of q telephone
conversation with the French diplo-
mat.
The newspaper La Suisse rejoiced
at the semi-ofilcial announcement
that Belgium would abstain from vot-
ing in the Assembly on the Russian
candidacy, interpreting this stand as
. condemnation Of Frances pro-
Russian policy.