Geneva, March 8. pionship ofthe minority populations is to assume the sham Burope numbering about 20,000, {00 when the Council of the League Nations convenes here to-morrow. 'The meeting is the regular March Fession of the' Council and con Sriates the. Sith session that has been held since the League was founded.
Unusual importance ig attached to the session for the raising by Germany of the whole question of the League's guarantee of the rights fof, minority populations is expected to open a new chapter in League activities. In the first place the action fof the German Foreign Minister Dr. Stresemann in placing the question. fon the League's agenda constitutes tone of che strongest challenges tha! has yet been made to the inviolability of the peace treaties and bring up anew an international problem' suppered finally to have gen settled by the peace treaties themaclves. Secondly, the problem {is considered by League circles as constituting a danger of war. Unless minority populations can be kept contented" in the various count les into which they have been {fneorporated, it is feared nationalist and irridentist movements witl develop possibly leading to armed conflict and an effort to create new otates,
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