Geneva, Jan. 19.
The committee which is studying the Pan-European proposal reassembled this morning under the presidency of M. Briand, It is studying the question whether the European states which are not members of the League of Nations will be invited to take part in the work of the committee.
Despite the fact that the meeting was private it is known that the first speakers were D. Curtius and Mr, Arthur Henderson who were both in favour of accepting these states. On the other side, M. Mowinkel, delegate from Norway, M, Tituleseo and M. Marinkoviteh were opposed to the proposition, on pretext that the committee had not the necessary power to offer such an invitation.
'A committee was appointed comprising Messrs. Briand, Henderson, Curtius, Grandi, Motto and Titules-€0, whose object is to expose the points of view already discussed concerning the invitation that has been addressed to the European states who are not members of th:
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European states without exception 188 otherwise it would merely be a league of states which would split Europe into two camps. He therefore advocated that invitations be issued to there two countries before the new Union has actually been founded and finally asserted the Italian Government's view that in any such union all states must have solutely equal political, legal and ie rights and that the same of disarmament must apply Arthur Henderson then suggested that a sub-committee be pointed to consider the Italian Proposal and to refer the question also urgently to the League of Ne tions since the latter and the special commission must be regarded as the founders of the proposed Pan-Buvopean Union, This compromise proposal was immediately supported ty M. Briand and wag accepted by the assembly. A sub-committee consequently appointed eomising eight members MIN. Briand, Surtius, Henderson," Grandi Iymans, van Blockland, Alba an ichalokopuk: s, The commission then adjourned until the afternoon-ion when it heard Hero Coljin's iseourse on the economic state of crepe. The speech assumed a somewhat dark complexion as. it pointed out that the situation had teen getting worse since 1927 and at the nations were losing all con-idence in the value of the economic york of the League of Nations. The speaker expressed the view that if the present pusillanimous course would be persisted in, the result would inevitably be the outbreak of a general tariff war throughout Burope. If the ills are
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