Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-13 | Page 1 | Poland Gains League Support

POlAND GAINS Sentiment Veers to Locarno Locarno Lo Lo- carno Group TWO NATIONS OFFER TO RESIGN SEATS Germany Bound by Previous ous Promise By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GE GENEVA E A March 13 Belgium Belgium and Sweden toda today offered to resign their permanent non memberships in the league of pf nations council i in favor of Poland as the fifth day of the the angry frantic negotiations be began began began be- be gan at Geneva The embarrassing Impasse which threatens to wreck the reputations of all the statesmen engaged in an effort to overcome u it appeared to tobe tobe tobe be less hopeless however when It was announced that the l league ague of nations council would pot not be convoked convoked con con- yoked today for a fin final findl l vote on Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's entry entry- Into the council T Nf T v PL Sir Austen Chamberlain the British Brit Brit- ish lab foreign minister and the principal principal principal pal German delegates lunched to together together together to- to gether today to consider a revised plan of agreement It Is learned from German officials that this agreement would permit per per- mit Germanys Germany's Immediate admission to the council upon her promise to serve on a commission to consider further enlargement of the upper I body If a majority of ot the commission commission commis commis- sion favored enlargement Germ Germany I ny would be bound by br a previous promise promise promise prom prom- ise to approve the majority report The council members will meet Informally today It was announced I Ito to discuss the sentiment of the as assembly assembly as- as which now is Js veering from the support of Germany to that of the Locarno group which is seeking a compromise on the basis of the creation of ot a permanent non-permanent council council coun coun- cil seat for Poland and the postponement postponement postponement post post- of ot Spain's and Brazils Brazil's Continued on page 5 POLAND GAINS LEAGUE SUPPORT Continued from page 1 cou council candidacies until September Septem Septem- ber BRIAND RECEDES It was the foregoing proposal that Germany rejected yesterday on the ground that she could ouid not pledge her vote for or against Poland in advance of entering the tile council Premier Briand of ot France Franc app apparently apparently r- r has receded from front his hopeless attitude of last night when he said our ur conciliation and conces concessions lor now have reached the point Where they cannot be exceeded Today Briand announced he would prolong his stay Htay in Geneva and probably would not be In Paris in time for Tuesdays Tuesday's parliament meeting when hl his makeshift cabinet w would uld pr present sent itself to the French de deputies and senators The present negotiations he said justify his continued presence I