Geneva, Oct. 16, After the United States Government acted swiftly to. accept the Invitation cabled by MI.
Briand, the French Foreign Minister, the Council of the League. Nations convened in plenary session hhere to-night with "America partieipating in its del 33 on the Sino-Japanese crisis in Manchuria, At the evening session. of the Council the only" disconcerting, mote was Japan's inability to welcome Mr, Prentiss Gilbert, the—United Stator Consul General in Geneval ud the official designated to repre-Sent the American. Government the deliberations of the Counell-
Mr. K. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Ambassador to. France and. the Chief of the Japanese delegation Geneva, remained. silent and. in-serutable as he sat at the Council fable, For Mr. Gilbert was present inst the firm and persistent opposition of Japan, It was six deloek to-night when M, Briand, the President of " the Council, received the United States! of the invitation for-Ly this, afternoon, Briand was notified that Mr. Gilbert, authorized to participate, The Council convened at'6.10 o'clock. a After reading the acceptance Washington Government M. Briand invited Mr. Gilbert to sit "at the green, horse-shoe table. Mr. Gilbert accepted M. Briand's invitation, In. welcoming Mr. Gilbert Briand declared: that his presence dle manner and, spirit of the ce "publicly manifests the most sensi mon entente and loyal ce-operation existing between the League of Na-Hons and the United States, he, world's people, desiring peace," said M, Briand, "will wale come' your presence as a very arent event. "The fact' that the noble American nation fs attached to Justice and peace has brought its help to the League of Nations In his response to -M, Briand (tr. Gilbert said:
"My Government does not eek "to intrude' regarding such memures as you may pro-Pose} under" the Covenant "of the ' League of Nations, Tt is not its position to participate with the Council in the formulation of any action envisaged under that instrument for composing diffe we, between two of its ment.
'Mi, Gilbert declared that already the "Government of the United States has expressed its sympathy: 'Ue Aoprecition of the League ations' purposes, ""Purther,"' Mr, Gilbert said, "the United States already' has signified its, moral support of your efforts to bring about a peccetulaotation of the Unfortunate controversy After. he had concluded his address the vatfous members of the Council welcomed Mr. Gilbert.
"No nation can view with deeper approval and. higher hopes the presence here of the United States than can China," said Dr. Alfred Sze, the Chinese Mini don' and the Chief of elegation to. Geneva.
Tord. Reading, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Aftais, so is with the greatest satisfac. tion of all of the members of the: League of Nations that we see the United States associated with us in our effort to enforce the Paris Pact under the present difficult ease Me Fe Une States cannot fail to help in arriv~ ing at a solution of the controversy between China and Japan. Tt demonstrates that there is har many betwoon the Pact of "Paris and the Covenant of the League of ps Nations. Tt enables us ° to choose whether the best solution is to be obtained under one or the other."
To-night's session of the Council adjourned at 7.20 o'clock with out fixing a date for its next meeting—United Press.
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