Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1920 — VOTE AUSTRIA INTO LEAGUE [ARTICLE]

VOTE AUSTRIA INTO LEAGUE

Commission on New States Is Unanimous in Action on • Admitting Republic. ASSEMBLY’S 0. I. EXPECTED b ——————— Notification of WHaon’a Plan to Mediate in Armenia Is Received By Assembly—Council Drafts Note Accepting His Proposal. Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 25—Austria was unanimously voted a member of the League of Nations by the commission for the admission of new states here today. It is expected the assembly of the league will ratify this action. Application by Bulgaria for admission was expected to be brought up today at the session of the assembly. Serbia, Greece and Roumanla have indicated they are seriously opposed to the admission of Bulgaria, and it appeared probable they would make an issue of the matter. \ A letter to President Wilson, accepting his offer to act as mediator in Armenia, was being drafted by the council of the league here today. Mr. Wilson’s note which was received this morning, was read to members of the council, and was received with marks of liveliest satisfaction. “Poor old Europe will feel less abandoned,’’ was a remark made by a member of the French delegation when discussing President Wilson’s action. The news gave the assembly great relief as the American question had become the bugbear of the assembly.

Wilson to Act as Umpire.

Washington, Dec. 2.—President Wilson has accepted the invitation of the League of Nations to act as mediator in the Armenian situation. The President’s acceptance is conditioned upon the use of moral influence. He explains that he is without authority to employ force without the consent of congress. In accepting the invitation to mediate to end the hostilities now directed against the Armenian people, President Wilson wrote President Hymans of the league assembly that he did so on assurances of “the moral and diplomatic support of the principal powers,” and relying on the league council to suggest to him the avenue through which his proffer should be made.

He added that he was without power to use the military forces of the United States to enforce mediation, any material contribution depending upon congress, “which,” he says, l is not now in session and whose action I could not forecast.”