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Show GENEVA MEETING IS HEARING END League Assembly Discusses Reports Sent in by Varied Committees By II. N. RICKEY, . Ef. V Staff CriT-sKmloiil. GENEVA. Efarltxerland, Dec 7. The assembly has entered Its third and final phase, and present indications ar-that ar-that h will conclude lt labors and ad"! JOUrn by December 15 The first phase was devoted to or-ranl7.fttlon or-ranl7.fttlon and the setting up Of the, necessarily complicated machinery which would make U possible for th representatives of fom -one nations,! Speaking some fifteen language tol function Chiefly, this machinery consists of ptx committees on each of which every nation has a representative. The subjects before the assembly for discussion nnd action were divided among these committees. The second phase was the meotlmrs1 of thesr committee! which have k i' the delegates busv dnv and nipht 'or the past ten davs. Mi AMEXDM1 Vis SEEN The third phase consists of plenary! ses-slons of the assembly to receive the reports of the committees and act upon therai j No amendments will be made to the, covenant now. it seems to be the! unanimous sentiment of the delegates! that the covenant should be amended In several particulars but that aa th' league Is less than a year old. as the proposed amendments have not been ufflclently thought out, it would be wlr-- to ilefer action. Th,- point was also pressed byl Balfour that the covenant and tho I treaty are so interwoven that amendments amend-ments to the former at this time might give Germany a chance to raise em-j Dafrosslhg questions as to the latter.' The commltiei'K have all gotten farl enough along In their work to make II possible to forecast, with reasonable accuracy, at this time, what the net I result of the first session of the assembly as-sembly will be in order of Importance! the future peace of the world ls ; to be affected. i RT T oil't LSORY. The ratification by the assembly of 1 the plan for a permanent court of in-1 ternatlonal Justice conies first The' committee having this In hand Is still at work It has before It the report Of the council embodying the plan for' .m International court as drafted at I tne Hague by the commission of whl. .! Bllhu Boot was a member. The council amended the original -ir.ift by taking from the court, '.he t power to force a nation before the , court at the demand of another nation. na-tion. The committee and the assembly assemb-ly will undoubtedly accept this coun-l ll amendment, although most of the! smaller nations want the court to have I tul" power. There may be a few other minor changes In the Original Hague plan.l but In the main, the work will stand, and the governments of tho world will' , be asked by tho assembly to enac, j the necessary legislation to have the permanent court of International jus-J tlco become the accepted mode for the m ttlemenl of disputes, which, if un-Bettled, un-Bettled, may lead to war. This would be the longest step forward for-ward In the direction of world peace that has ever been taken, and of lt- self, would more than Justify the for-1 matlon of the league and this session of the assembly, Tin: question of limitation of arma-j ments Is probably next in importance! W hile It is not probable that any i positive action will be taken, there IS no doubt that the exhaustive study ind discussion of the subject by the greatest minds Of the assembly have! laid the foundations for a formula for armament limitation This vitally lm-i portant matter will remain in the hands of the permanent military, nav-' nav-' al and air commission for further study and report. I s. voi BOUND. The Lnlted States has been asked to take part In this commission with-', out being bound by It. If It accepts, i it Is generally felt thai this most dlffi-' cult of problems will be nearer solu- tlon It has been decided to admit Ans-1 , tria to tin- league, and Bulgaria will' also probably be admitted. This a chiefly important as establishing a precedent as to tiTmnnv. The action of the assembly In securing secur-ing the consent of the I'nited Stales' I to mediate between stustapha Eternal! mil the Armenians is considered by : delegates, among them I.ofd Robert Cecil, as ;m accomplishment of the I first Importance, both In its human!-tartan human!-tartan aspects and as It affects the' ultimate settlement of the many per-1 plexmg problems of the Near Kast. Even should this mediation fail, Cecil and others point out that the' league, having once undertaken rhe t.-Lsk of saving the Armenians, must (and will rind other means. The sending of an International army to Vllna to act as a police during dur-ing the plebiscite which will decide a very dangerous question between Po-1 ' land nnd Lithuania establishes a pre-1 1 cedent as to league authority and willingness to assume responslbillu . the future value of which can hardly j be e er-esiimsted. SUCCESS If FOESEEN. I In this connection, the publication ' by the council through the secretarial Of all tho notes and elocuments about I tho Polish-Lithuanian controversy is the sort of open diplomacy which mal.es for international health and j world peace. This action was taken as the result of pressure put upon the council by the assembly, and is a distinct dis-tinct victory for world liberalism as' represented by the people's delegates, over the old diplomatic secret intrigu-: ers- I At the end of the third week of. this gathering, unique in the world Sj history, nothing hus happened to cause mo to chance the view which 1 I i have several times expressed In these' cabled dispatches, rh.it the league of nations not only has sufficient VltaJlt to live, but that it. is demonstrating its capacity as a workable machine through which the people of the world may insure future peace in spite off those who would embroil them In war. Of Itself, it will not accomplish this, great object. The peoples must work out their own salvation, but the leasTUS is the Instrument ready for theli use, the first l hey have ever had. They have begun to use it and it the will continue to use it. and de-1 velop It to meot the needs of i chang-j ing the world, the age-old dream of a world In which peace and Justice reign ' will ono day change from a dream to a real it oo Ten thousand disabled soldiers, sail- I ors and marines, somewhere in Great- I er New York, have never applied for ' tbelr compensation |