LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 228, 27 September 1926, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

HUGE AGENDA PAPER FRENCH RAILLERY AT BRITAIN'S EXPENSE. LORD CEOIL 'S T A OTFTJ LNESS .

LPrbss Association. 1

Aus. and N.Z. Cfible Association.

(Received Sept. 27, 9.55 a.m.) GENEVA, Sept. 26. A liuge agenda pa^ier confronted the League on the closing day, traversing a wide range of snbjects, from cliild welfare to defining how far the League' s international activities might go without offending national touchiness. The official reporter on the latter subject, the Frencli Professor Barthelemy, wrongly concluding that Britain wished to ti© down the League. to rigid limits, permitted himself half an hour's raillery at Britain' s expense, to the obvious enjoyment of the Latin representatives, but Lorcl Oecil, with a characteristio mixture of sharp logio and tactful compliments, quite disarmed Professor Barthelemy and carried the Assembly with him for a postponement of the thorny problem till next year. There was a suggestion of warmth in Lofid Ceeil's protest that no matter how carefully Britain worded her English texts France persistently managed to misunderstand them, adding as a solatium that the convei'se wa:s perhaps as true. Another resolution hailed the Locarno Pact as a model on which the nations might fashion rheir treaties of securities and arbitration, not necessarily to limited areas, but to different parts of the world. The Anti-Bl avery. Convention was adopted, Mr Latham signing subject to ratification, but New Zealand is awaiting the adjustment of a minor technicality. * The mandat.es debate was very brief and colorless. There was no •sign that Germany would at present seek reprcsentation on the Mandates Cbmmission.