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Meanwhile the Permanent Mandate Commission of the League of Nations, in session at Geneva, has asked the French Government for "Official comment" on "numerous petitions, complaints and protests" which have been filed with it concerning the bombardment of Damascus...
...been closely involved in international affairs. In 1919 he was a member of the Paris Peace Conference, serving on three commissions, and later held a position on the legal section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations. Since the League was founded he has spent every summer at Geneva. His activities in the field of international cooperation have varied from a position of legal adviser to the International Labor Conference in 1919 to legal adviser to the International Conference on Obscene Publications...
...tomorrow's meeting, Professor Hudson will speak on his observations gained at Geneva last summer. His speech will have especial significance in view of the League's recent show of power in stopping the Greco-Bulgarian war which threatened to start another Balkan struggle, and its present activity in settling the Syrian question. The subject of international cooperation is a timely one also, because of the present intercollegiate movement for American participation in the World Court...
Article X (in toto) : "The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be deposited at Geneva in the archives of the League of Nations as soon as possible. It shall enter into force as soon as all the ratifications have been deposited and Germany has become a member of the League of Nations. The present treaty, done in a single copy, will be deposited in the archives of the League of Nations, and the Secretary General will be requested to transmit certified copies to each of the high contracting parties...
From London it was announced that "merely by coincidence" a strong British fleet will soon be maneuvering in Near Eastern waters. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who precipitated the break with the Turks at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), almost paraphrased Turkish utterances: "I can imagine no action more fatal to the honor of Britain than for us to abandon our rights in Mosul...