Palestine is not the only country which it is Proposed to subject to the technique of Solomon 'Last month the fifteen years' agreement expired by which Upper Silesia, both German and Polish, has been administered since—and in consequence oi—the League Council's award of 1922. Fifteen years ago the Principal Allied Powers referred to Geneva the awkward question of the effect to be given to the results of the Upper Silesian plebiscite. The Council recommended that the Gordian knot should be cut by a partition of the plebiscite area, a thickly populated industrial district which was one and indivisible for every purpose except that of nationality. Accordingly the League proposed local restrictions, for transitional period, upon the sovereignty of the two Governments between whom the territory. was to be politically divided. This solution says the "Economist" was accepted by all parties; and for the past fifteen years the Minorities Bureau, the, Arbitral Tribunal and the Mixed Commissions—which were the special organs provided for in the League plan—have been working admirably for the common benefit of all the people of Upper Silesia. The inhabitants of the area have indeed benefited impartially: whether they happen to speak Polish or German as their mother-tongue or to live, as a result of the partition, under the Polish' or under the German flag.
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