Meanwhile, reports from Geneva! state that, while the German Note approves of sending a neutral inter-ational force to the Saar, at. thei same time it considers that condi-Hons do not appear to make the employment of foreign forces necessary.
The German Consul in Geneva in handing in the Note, informed M. Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General_of the League, that Germany had received assurances from the British ud Italian Governments, which were Understood to refer to Germany's misgivings about the employment of Russians and jovakians and the time the force would be kept in the Saar:
was reliably reported that] either Russia nor Czecho-Slovakia would press for representation.
Reuters correspondent in Berlin stated to-day that the general impression in the Wilhemstrasse was that the banning of French troops from the Saar was largely, if not} wholly, due to British initiative.
Tu Geneva to-day M. Laval announced that he expected to leave for Rome shortly.
Only One Further Matter Now that the Report of the Saar Commission has been unanimously' adopted by the League Council, and France and Germany have agreed Britain's ce-operation in, maintaining! order during the plebiscite, and also that neither France nor " Germany will be represented on the interned tional force, there remains but one' further matter to be settled—the det-
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