Deliberations

Geneva blossomed overnight. Before there had been little knots of industrious secrtaries and attaches. Suddenly one morning Geneva woke up to the opening of the session of the Council of the League of Nations. Foreign ministers were stepping into the city by tens. Ambassadors by scores, and here and there through the mass was a sprinkling of Premiers.

The Prospect. The Council on assembling was faced with the problem of deciding a whole series of controversies including 1) the postal juridiction and munitions de-disposition of Mosul; 2) Polish pots in Danzig; 3) disposition of the unused portion of the Austrian loan and Austrian finances in general; 4) opium control; 5) minorities in Rumania and elsewhere, 6) international relief; 7) slavery.

Mosul. Straightway the Council plunged into the consideration of one of the most delicate questions before it--the disposition of Mosul. Britain and Turkey were the disputants. Although Turkey is not a member of the League she agreed with Britain to abide by the Council's decision whether Turkey it to own or Britain to have a mandate over Mosul.

* Mr. Gilbert, 33, sailed last October to Europe to become Agent General of Reparations, called by some "the biggest job in the world."