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Opium. The Council decided to call two conferences on the opium traffic at Geneva, in November, 1924. One will consider the limitation of the manufacture of the drug to scientific and medical needs, the other will consider the strategy of a war on opium. It was decided to name a committee to prepare plans for the conferences...
Undoubtedly the collapse of Germany's financial structure has played a considerable part in our trade balances, including our recent heavy receipts of gold. German capitalists have been heavy purchasers of standard American bonds and shares, for which payment has been made via Amsterdam and Geneva. The fear of a Labor ministry in Britain has also produced a shifting of British capital to this country for investment...
...southern trip, including New York and Philadelphia, has been given up. Instead the team will play Hobart at Geneva, N. Y., on Friday, April 18; and Cornell at Ithaca on Saturday, April 19. The tentative schedule also includes games with Princeton at Princeton on Saturday, May 3; Syracuse at Cambridge on Thursday, May 15; and Yale at Cambridge on Saturday, May 24. The team will possibly play Williams, Colgate, and Union...
...Council of the League of Nations, or the Board of Directors of the League, now in session at Paris, has the following agenda: fixation of arrangements for two international opium conferences, which may be held at Geneva next Summer; discussion of the white slave traffic evil; investigation of questions affecting international health, slavery, Russian refugees, anti-obscene literature campaign, intellectual cooperation movement; consideration of reduction of armaments, compact of mutual guarantees (TiME, Aug. 20), German colonists in Poland, Memel dispute, Saar Valley report, appointment of a new High Commission for Danzig, Austrian report, plans for financial rehabilitation of Hungary, reports...
Judge Clarke showed how the League has gone about the prevention of war. No nation in the League may make war before arbitration and investigation, thus giving an opportunity for "cooling off" and for world opinion to be focused. All national treaties must be filed at Geneva, thus preventing secret treaties. The League formed the International Court of Justice, the first permanent institution of the kind, to provide for the reduction of armament. The League will boycott any nation making war without obeying these laws...