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Show Wilson Sends Note to Geneva LLOYD GEORGE TO LEAVE FOR LEIGyEJEETII President Wilson Expresses Hope That Labors Will Benefit World WORK OF ASSEMBLY BEGINS SPEEDING UP Germany to Protest Action of Body in Giving Land To Belgium PARIS, Nn 17 Premlec I,loil iiiftrt, of (.!-. it Brii.iiii, Is expected to nrrhc iii Geneva soon, npcordlns to newspaper dispatches dis-patches from tliat city. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 President Wilson. In a message sent today to Paul Hymiins, president of the league of nations assembly ut Geneva. Switzerland, Swit-zerland, extended hi", personal greet-J lugs to the usseniblv and expressed the ' liope and belief that their labors will; be of Immense value to the whole' . I lli7.ed world." The mossuge was un acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of one from President Hyrn ps com eying ap expression of sympathy1 voted President Wilson unanimously upon tho opening of the assembly of ti:e Vengije last Mondaj. M. Hymans' message Hld: "Th'9 assembly of 'the league of nations na-tions has by unanimous vote Instruct-' ed 1111 to send you Its wrumest greet-' Ing and to expr-ss its earnest wlSHes that you may speedily be restored to' complete health. The assembly ree-1 orrmzes that you hue done perhaps more than any other man to lay the: ! iundatlon of the Uague- it feels con-, fldent thttt the present meetings will greatly advance those principles ofl cooperation between all nations which you have done so much to promote." II son s BUEPLY. The reply of President Wilson was as follows The greeting so graciously sent me i'V the assembly of the league, of nations na-tions through you has gratified me very deeply Indeed. I am Indeed proud to be considered to have any part In promoting the concord of nations with the establishment of such an instrumentality instru-mentality as the league to whose Increasing In-creasing usefulness and success I look forward with perfect confidence. Permit Per-mit me to extend my personal greetings greet-ings to the assembly. If they will be gracious enough to receive them, together to-gether with an expression of my hope and belief that their labors will be of Imrncnsi. valuo to the whole civ 111.-, 1 world." VSSEMRLT SPEEDS UP. GENEVA, Nov. 17. I By tho Associated Asso-ciated Press.) A plenary session was 1 held by tho assembly of the leaguo of nations this morning to consider a report re-port from the council of the league! relative to Its activities sinco its for-1 matlon. , i The work of the assembly meeting began speeding up today with organization organi-zation of tho sLx committees appointed at the opening session Monday and the election of chairmen. It has been decided that these committees will I work in pi h ate, but that the minutes of their meetings will he published as fjoon aa possible. Subjects will bo referred re-ferred to them by the assembly without with-out debate. Honorlo Pueyrredon, head of the Argentine delegation, took tho floor first after the opening of the assembly session today. Speaking in French, he declared that the SUCCftSS of the league! required fl niost complete membership,' referring to the necessity, in his view, Of the United States coming In PltOTE-ST PLANNED. Germany Is understood to be plan-' nlng .1 protest to the assembly of the' bugue of nations against the allocation alloca-tion of the Euphen and Mallue.lv districts dis-tricts to Belgium by the council of the. (league, Dr. Gastoa de Cunhn. BraxU-Ian BraxU-Ian representative at the assembly meeting, dei hired today. I Dr. da Cunha's statement was made to a Davos representative. The Bra,-! zlllari added he was convinced the; I nlted States would enter the league.! ald thi sample and firm attitude of South American nations would, in his opinion, determine th0 policy of President-elect Harding-. 00 |