Sir Austen Chamberlain on Serious Situation Caused by Reluctance: To be Considered by the League London, Mar. 6.
Sir Austen Chamberlain called attention in the Council of the League of Nations to-day to the: serious situation being created by, the failure of the League to ratify League conventions, notably the. Opium Convention of 1925.
The discussion at the public session of the question of non-ratification of agreements and conventions concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations including the 1925 Opium Convention was 80 protracted that the private session was postponed until. to-
He mentioned also conventions of importance to shipping and industry dealing with freedom of transit, Sir Austen Chamberlain made a special appeal on behalf of the Opium Convention, which would only become effective when ratified by seven members of the Council He said the lesson to be drawn was that the League should adopt only' weenventions likely to be ratified instead of a large number which fail to become effective, Finally, on the proposal of Signor Scialofa, the Council placed on the agenda for its next session the whole question of the failure of members of the League to ratify conventions.—British Wireless, Through Reuter.
Geneva, Mar. 6, Eight subjects confronted the Public session of the Council of the League of Nations this morning, the Principal ones being the proposal to reduce the number of meetings of the Council and the question of constructing now buildings for the Secretariat of the League.
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