Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1920 — FILES U. S. TREATIES [ARTICLE]

FILES U. S. TREATIES

Sweden Presents Pact to the League of Nations. First American Agreement to Be Placed in Records of the World Tribunal. Geneva, Nov. 25. —The first American treaties to be filed with the League of Nations were put officially on record when Sweden presented the text of two agreements with the United States. The first of these, signed October 18 last, is in the form of a proclamation by President Wilson, extending the copyright law of 1909, as applied between Sweden and the United States. The second treaty cancels articles 11 and 12 of the consular convention between Sweden and the United States, making them terminate March 18, 1921. The treaty was signed June 18 last.

' Optimists at the meeting of the assembly of the League of Nations are counting upon finishing the work of the session next week, or ten days earlier than was calculated by league officials. This hope Is based on the fact that committees numbers one and two have Virtually finished their work, the international court is quite out of the way, and the armament question has been disposed of by a practical adjournment. The principle relative to the adnilsslon of new members has also been decided upon. Some apprehension is still felt In some quarters, however, that the discussions in full assembly, which will be resumed on Tuesday, especially those on the question regarding the relations of the league council and assembly, will be prolonged. Czechoslovakia delegates are now furnishing the only opposition to the admission of Austria to The league. Switzerland Is strongly advocating admission with the proviso, however, that if reaction occurs in Austria, with a restoration of the monarchy, she will Insist upon the right of the province of Voralberg to decide • whether to remain a part of Austria or not. Voralberg recently requested that it be attached to Switzerland, but this request was rejected by the latter country. , Committee No. 4, which has been examining the’ accounts of the league, finally has approved the comparatively high salaries paid the personnel of the secretariat, finding the high cost of living in Geneva Justified them, in part, while the expenses of each worker in reaching his native country should also be taken Into account. The organization committee has decided to approve the suggestion that the four selective members of the council shall be chosen so that only ope term will expire each year. It has also decided to set up a committee to study all proposed amendments to the covenant of the league. •That the United States would be the best natlpn to accept the mandate for Armenia is the opinion of Lord Robert Cecil, who is acting as ode of South Africa’s delegates to the League of Nations assembly, as expressed to the American newspaper correspondents. The United States, he added, probably ’would have more influence with Mustapha Kernel Pasha (the Turkish Nationalist leader who Is conducting a campaign against the Armenians) than any other nation. LoM Roberts sfiid $20,000,000 would supply the necessary military assistance th put Armenia on her feet.