The Archive · 1928

THE LITHUANIAN CONSTITUTION Declared Void of Juridical Value in Polish Note

Geneva, June 5.

Lithuania's amended Constitution designating Vilna as the capital of the Republic (notwithstanding the fact that the Powers upheld the legality df Poland's seizure of Vilna) is described as devoid of juridical value and practicable value in a Polish Note to Lithuania, a copy of which has been sent to the Council of the League of Nations.

1 The Lithuanian Premier, {Valdemaras, interviewed by Reuter, asserted that the Note would not affect the situation in the least, and added that the" Lithuanian reply would declare that the 1918 Act of Independence fixed Vilna as the

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