Geneva, Sept. 9.
The appeal from China is the only essential political item on the agenda of the 102nd League of Nations Council session that begins today under the chairmanship of the delegate for New Zealand, Mr. Jordan.
The official programme confirms the fact that in this appeal China has invoked articles 11, 12 and 17 of the League Convention.
Of the other and rather technical items of the programme only the following- are of general interest: 1. appointment of a new trustee for the Austrian League of Nations loans to succeed the Italian trustee who has acted hitherto but now resigned; 2 reports of the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations and of the International Committee for Intellectual Ca-operation; 3. apponimed of a new fudge for the Internatidhal Court at The Hague.
In well-informed English circles it is doubted that the Chinese appeal will lead to any concrete results. It is assumed that the League Council will consider itself unable to go beyond its previous resolutions regarding individual help" of the League members to China. At the same time, it is emphasized that China's action in [Geneva could not but improve the legal political situation of the Chiang Kai-shek Government.
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