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Professor Masaryk remembers well that it was onetime Professor Wilson who, as President of the U. S., furthered the aspirations of Czechs and Slovaks at the peace conference, and secured recognition of the new state of Czechoslovakia by the Allies in the Treaty of St. Germain (Sept...
Poland, Chile and Rumania were elected for three years, the Polish seat being made renewable. Colombia, Holland and China were elected for two years; and Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Salvador were elected for one year. Thus the League Council will consist next year of these nine states and the permanently seated powers: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan...
...matter of courtesy and alphabetical precedence the chairmanship of the Council was offered to the Representative of Germany (Allemagne). Beaming, Dr. Stresemann declined the honor on the ground that he does not speak French, the language in which the Council is ordinarily conducted. Thereupon Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia, the retiring chairman, was called upon to preside and the Council took up an innocuous matter-acceptance of a bronze bust of Woodrow Wilson proffered by one Robert J. Caldwell, rich Manhattan Republican and an official of the League of Nations Non-partisan Association...
...right to vote: Belgium, Spain, Italy, Jugoslavia, Japan Women's suffrage exists in only 28 states: Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, British East Africa, Rhodesia, Jamaica, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Rumania, Serbia, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States, Poland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine...
Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia presided. Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain was observed to relax in his chair and absently puff a cigaret. Foreign Minister Briand of France evidently at ease, beamed. Newsgatherers remembered that in March both Sir Austen and M. Briand sat haggard, tense, nerve-wracked at the Council table...