The League

At Geneva

On Sept. 3 the Fourth General Assembly of the League of Nations met at Geneva.

The first problem that was thrust upon it was the investigation of the Italo-Greek hullabaloo, and it may be said that on the results it achieves in settling the dispute will depend the very existence of the League as a potent factor in regulating international affairs.

The agenda of the Assembly: Admittance of Ireland, Ethiopia (Abyssinia), who will be asked to abolish slavery; and possibly the admittance of Turkey, Mexico, Germany; consideration of reports from the following ten Commissions of the League:

1) The Commission on Health.

2) The Commission on Transit.

3) The Commission on Finance.

4) The Commission on Mandates.

5) The Commission on Intellectual Cooeperation.

6) The Commission on the Traffic in Opium.

7) The Commission on the Traffic in Women and Children.

8) The Commission on Disarmament.

9) The Commission on the Government of the Saar.

10) The Commission on the Danzig Supervision.

The session is being held in public and is likely to be prorogued before the end of the month (the official date of ending) on account of the anticipated heavy volume of business.

The "Big Seven" of the Fourth Convention are: Lord Robert Cecil, Britain; Fridjof Nansen, Norway; M. Motta, Switzerland; ex-Premier Hjalmar Branting, Sweden; President Cosgrave, Ireland; General Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa; Edouard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia.