PEACEMAKERS REJOICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 910, 1 March 1930, Page 30

PEACEMAKERS REJOICE

TEN YEARS OF THE LEAGUE RECORD FOR FIRST DECADE Banquetings and bouquets of praise and rejoicing marked the tenth birthday anniversary of the League of Nations on January 10. In many parts of the world the occasion was a day of applause for the League’s growth and achievements. Here is the record of the League’s first decade: — Evolution of new methods of conference, correspondence and co-opera-tion; settlement of 18 political disputes. Decision of 32 judicial questions. Stimulation for Locarno and Kellogg Pacts. Elaboration of two-score general conventions. Registration of 4,UOQ treaties. Preparation of world-disarmament conference. International supervision of mandates, minorities and special districts. Enunciation of basic financial and economic doctrine. Organisation of nine reconstruction loans totalling £80,000,000. Freeing of international intercourse from many restrictions. Facilitating the work of the business man abroad. Studies of gold, coal, sugar, double taxation. Administrative co-operation for safety at sea, news transmission, international statistics. Narrowing of the opium and white slave trades. World conventions on slavery and obscene publications. Reparation of 400,000 prisoners of war. , Care of many more refugeesOrganisation of intellectual co-opera-tion. No less than 12 times has the League been called upon to intervene in international disputes, any one of which might otherwise have resulted in armed conflict/’ points out a dispatch from Geneva, which lists the 12 disputes as follow; 1920—Dispute between Sweden and Finland relative to the possession of the Aaland Islands. 1920 Dispute between Poland and Lithuania relative to the Polish occupation of Vilna. 1921 Projected Serbian invasion of Albania. 1921 Finland’s claims of Soviet’s illtreatment of inhabitants of Eastern Carelia. 1922 Polish and Czecho-Slovakian dispute relative to the Jaworzina frontier. 1922 Settlement of the Upper Silesian dispute between Poland and Germany. 1923 — Irak boundary dispute involving Great Britain, Turkey and Irak 1923 Dispute between Italy and Greece, resulting in the former’s occupation of Coi'fu. 1924 Settlement of the Memel dispute with Lithuania. 1925 — Settlement of the frontier dispute between Greece and Bulgaria. 1927-—The Hungarian-Rumanian dispute relative to Hungarian optants in Rumania, which is still in process of pacific settlement. 1929 The Bolivian and Paraguayan frontier dispute.