Paris, Sept. 11.
The newspapers wholeheartedly side with M. Briand, whom they! congratulate for his outspoken rejoinder to the ins: nuation of the! German Chancellor, Dr. Mueller, regarding double-dealing on he part of the Allies on the matter of disarmament, but the Socialist] organs remark' that M. Briand's speech at Geneva yesterday destroys the hope aroused by the signature, of the Kellogg Peace Pact—Reuter.
Geneva, Sept. 10.
Spain, Persia and Venezuela have been elected non-permanent members of the Council of the League of Nations.
Spain received 46 votes. Persia 40, Venezuela 35, Norway 11, Siam 6, Denmark 3, Paraguay 2," €ruguay Greece 2, Portugal 1 and Austria Fifty States voted.
In view of the failure of China earlier in the day to secure the necessary two-thirds majority in favour of her re-eligibility for else~ tion to a non-permanent seat on the Council, no vote was cast in her favour.
passed a resolution granting a re-Jquest made by Spain that she should declared re-eligible for election on the expiration of her three years Germany's Pertinent Question Sept. 11, Dr. Mueller in an interview in reply to M. Briand said that the German delegates had come to Geneva to assist the League with regard to disarmament. Germany shared the view with regard to the gradual reduction of armaments.
War to-day was out of the question. Germany had disarmed although there were still some small things to be done. It was true that Germany could utilize her industries }for war purposes, but how could Jany country go to war if she did not possess a stock of arm:
'M, Briand, Dr. Mueller, Herr von /Schubert, permanent undersecretary fof the German Foreign Office, M. Hymans (Belgium) and Signor Scialoja (Italy), and Mr. Adatehi van)—as the representative of Jone of the Powers responsible for the execution of the Versailles Treaty—attended a tea-party at Lord Cushendun's rooms to-day at which they discussed the procedure to be adopted in dealing with the question of the evacuation of the Rhineland.
The conversations, which lasted two and a half hours, embraced a of views with other sides of the question, The next sitting of the Assembly will be held on Thursday.—Reuter, Berlin, Sept. 11.
The Socialist newspaper "Vor-waerrs," which in this case ex-Presses the view of the Chancellor, Dr. Mueller, and the majority of his colleagues, repudiates the Nationalist outcry against the French Foreign Minister, M. Briand, and declares that the controversial point at Geneva will not dalist Party deviate a hair's-breadth [from its foreign policy, which is aimed at friendly ce-operation between France and Germany—Reuter.
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