Monday, May. 12, 1924

Fifth Assembly

The Secretary General of the League of Nations, Sir James Eric Drummond, summoned the Fifth Assembly to meet at Geneva on Sept. 1.

Matters which the Assembly will debate were given in a provisional agenda:

International treaty for mutual defense.

Further naval disarmament.

Government control of private manufacture of war munitions.

Further legal assistance of the poor.

Closer municipal relations between the municipalities and different States.

Suppression of white slavery.

Election of six nonpermanent members of the Council of the League.

Reports of financial reconstruction in Austria and Hungary.

Reorganization of South American Bureau.

A project for the establishment of international copyrights on scientific discoveries.

Fixing of budgets for 1925 for the International Labor Bureau and the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Consideration of a number of reports.