The Archive · 1926

Simple Majority Sufficient

Feb. 17.

According to the arrangements reade between Sir Evie Drummond, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, and the Foreign Office Germany's application for admission to the League of Nations will be referred to a Committee appointed by the Assembly at Geneva March 8. Committee will ccieet a sub-committee at which the German delegate will probably give information.

A. vote of the Assembly is not ely to be given before March 10. As soon as admission to the League had been agreed upon the Council will consider the question of giving Germany a permanent! seat on the Council. If this is un-linously passed the Assembly wil asked to adopt it and for this 2 simple majority will be sufficient, The report that Sir Erie Drum-and Herr Stresemann had! wwreed that Germany alone be admitted to 8 permanent seat on thei Council of the League of Nations is entirely without founda-true that the question of the composition of the. Counci wae discussed and that Herr Strese inted out that serious ieulties would arise if the Coun-1 were suddenly enlarged by the ion -of other members. besides but it is authoritatively: cersphasized that the foreign governnents concerned must decide the future composition of the Council Sie Erie Drummond confined himself to expressing his personal views which he stated would be sympathetic towards the German attitude—Reuter,

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