THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1927, Page 3

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

'Australian Press Association & Sun.) LONDON, Aug. 23. The full agenda of the League of Nations Council, which is opening the session on the Ist of September, consists of twenty-nine items. “ Hardly one of the items,” says the “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent, “ could not he disposed of by the senior or junior clerks in the Foreign Offices.” The correspondent proceeds :—“ The September session is generally regarded as most important. The present agenda, however, is even duller and emptier than that of last spring. It seems to justify .M. Do Jouvonaf’s complaint that the League nowadays is not permitted to deal with first-class issues. There are the usual matters coneoneerning the internal working of tiio Longue, and more than the usual crop; of Polish-Danzig sepia hides; ai'so| numerous reports on finance, econom-i ies, health, infant welfare, transit and j the problem of refugees; but no word about disarmament, the Rhineland occupation, Soviet menace or the Balkan unrest.” PR ESS CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) GENEVA, Aug. 2). Lord Rurnluirn, presiding at the International Press Conference under the auspices of the Longue of Nations in order to consider how the press may conduce to harmony and co-operation between nation and nation, said tbo Economic Conference must pay greator attention to newspapers, if it desired to increase the commercial intercourse and break down the barriers of into'national exclusiveness. GENEVA, Aug. 25. The agenda for the press conference, here comprises telegraphic and wireless rates, codes, protection of news and facilities for journalists. Lord Burnham said there was no question of organising league propaganda. “Wo aro entering a period of co-opera-tion with the League in order to jointly employ counsels of conciliation. Our independence must be retained, as well as tbo governing principals of public service and enlightenment of the world.”