Developments

At Berlin. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, arrived from Geneva to confer with Foreign Minister Stresemann respecting the details of Germany's forthcoming entry into the League. Later the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag passed a resolution strongly condemning French propaganda, which has been urging that Poland be given a permanent seat on the League Council at the same time as Germany. The German resolution was, of course, couched in purely general terms; did not mention Poland or her great ally France.

At Rome. The Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations convened under the presidency of the Marquis Alberto Theodori and received the report of France touching her administration of the mandated territories of Syria and Libya. Count Robert de Caix, Secretary-General of the French High Commission in Syria, and Count Gaston Clauzel, Director of the French Service of the League of Nations, did their best to explain why the French bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9). The session was naturally behind closed doors, but attentive listeners heard enough to evolve the catch phrase: "For the first time in history a Great Colonial Power is being cross-examined with regard to its treatment of a Weaker Nation." Cynics smiled.

At Geneva. The Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations announced that Greece has now paid over to Bulgaria one half the indemnity fixed by the Council of the League of Nations (TIME, Dec. 28) after the Greco-Bulgar clash (TIME, Nov. 9). The residual half (15 million leva; $110,000) is to be paid on March 15.