THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1926, Page 2

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association ]

BRITISH DELEGATES DEPART (Received this day at 8 a.m.i LONDON, Alareh 7,

Sir Austin Chamberlain and the other delegate- have departed for Geneva. Ai. Bi'iand is accompanying him from Paris to attend the preliminary conversations, hut AI. Bi'iand will not participate in ihe official deliberations, taking up the standpoint that- since he was defeated in tlio Chamber 1>? will he unable to pledge the Government. GERMANY’S ADAHSSTOX-A LONG DRAWN PROCESS. LONDON. Alareh C. It appears that the admission of Germany to the Council will he a longdrawn process. She will lie first elected to membership, and tlierafter to a. permaiiieiit Council seat, involving a succession of meetings of the Council and the Assembly. At these the Gormans "ill not lie present. Il may he mid-week before the German delegates sit- at the League table, thus aHonling ample time for informal conversations. At least six premiers will be present at- Geneva Sir Joseph Cook" and Afr Casey ( Australia), and the New Zealanders, Sir Janies Allen and Air Know-lies, went to Geneva to-day.

The Chamber, after meeting the other L'carno delegates, will meet tlio Dominions’ delegates for the purposo of assimilating procedure. It i.s understood that Sir J. Cook and Sir .1. Allen are instructed to cooperate \\ith Sir Austeii-Chiinibcrlain in con licet ion with the immediate admission of Germany to a permanent seat on the Council, hut they are not committing tlienisevos to contentious questions, such a.s tlio enlargement of the Council and the admission of Poland, Spain and Brazil until further instructed. T)r StrosKcmaiin, interviewed by Lady Drummond Hay (Daily Express correspondent! on the eve of his departure for Geneva, said that the responsibilities for preventing, a change in the League, on the occasion of Germany’s entry must: lie borne in good faith by the so-called Locarno Powers.