Geneva, Feb, 12.
The Council of the League of Nations has fixed March 8 for the extraordinary meeting of the Assembly to deliver an opinion upon Germany's application for member-the postponement of the Assembly of the League fixed for March 8 until the various states have come to an understanding.
The correspondent adds that Sir Erie Drummond has left for Ber-Tin to discuss the matter with Dr.
Delicate Question Raised London, Feb, 11.
Brit in and Allocation of Seats Later.
Arising from reported mow spired by France in connexion Germany's application for admission into the League of Nations, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the ' House Of Commons to-lay invited a statement from Sir Austen Chamberlain, who, replying, said that the applica. tion, as probably inevitable, had] pened the whole question of the] composition of the Council. It had Ted to claims from other quarters, jut until arguments had been heard it was impossible to reach a final decision as regards the course that would best serve the interests of the Council and the League. Sir Austen seid that he would make a further statement before his departure to attend the Council in March if possible, but he thought that, as a good deal' of difference of opinion must fat first exist, it would defeat the whole object' of the forthcoming meetings and destroy the League's usefulness and influence, if representatives were bound in advance by} rigid instructions which would ren ler a common agreement impossible.
The enif addition Sir Austen was: willing to make to the foregoing] statement way that more than two other Powers had applied for seats; on the Council, Feb, 13.
The conflicting British and! French points of view on the subject of new permanent members on the Council of the League of Nations is becoming what the "Daily Chronicle" calls the most serian cloud hitherto appearing on the Locarno sky.
Reutst learns on high authority' that there is no truth whatsoever: in the report circulated abroad to the effect that Great Britain has agreed to the proposal that permanent seats on the Council of the League of Nations should by! awarded to Polard, Spain and Brazil in addition to Germany.
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