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Show FIRST SESSION OF LEAGUE AT AN END DECISION NOT TO AMEND THE COVENANT AT PRESENT ONE OF IMPORTANT FEATURES. ! i Request for the Admission cf German; Denied, While Austria and a Number of Minor Powers Are Admitted to Membership. (-iencva. The first lneorin:; of tlu league of nations closed on 1 Vci-inbei lii in a burst of eloijuouue in a rathci agitated debate. In farewell speeches, Paul llymans, president of the assrilnbly and Dr. Guiseppe Motta, president of Switzerland, Switz-erland, declared the first assembly bad proved- the league was a liviiii organism and a success. The opinioi: expressed by many of the delegates i that the assembly has done all that could be expected of it, if not more The closing speech was made bj President llymans of the assembly. "We have tried a great experiment," be said, "and we have succeeded. Out work has shown the wisdom of refraining re-fraining from amending the covenant of the league of nations ut this time. "The great work for future activities activi-ties of the assembly is the constitution constitu-tion of the international court." Outstanding Features. Some of the outstanding features ol the first session of the league are : 1. Decision not to amend the covenant cove-nant at this time. 2. Rejection of the request for the admission of Germany. 3. The admission of Austria, Bulgaria Bul-garia and minor powers. 4. An effort to relieve the situation situa-tion in Armenia, torn by international dissensions and menaced by both Turkey Tur-key and Russia. 5. The withdrawal of the Argentine Argen-tine delegation, Dr. Honario Puerry-ron, Puerry-ron, Argentine foreign minister, protesting pro-testing against the rejection of Argentine's Argen-tine's series of suggestions. 6. Clash between the assembly and the council on the control of mandates. man-dates. 7. Postponement of the Chino-Jap-inese clash over Shantung, awarded to Japan by the treaty of Versailles. |