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Show ARGENTINA TO i LEAVE LEAGUE; CABLEiAITED South American Republic Wants All Countries Admitted Ad-mitted to Organization ARTICLE TEN LIKELY TO BE ELIMINATED Does Not Guarantee Territorial Territor-ial Integrity of Members, Committee Rules I BUENOS AIRES. Hoc S. (By the Associated Press.) Rejection by the assembly of the league of nations of Argentina proposals In favor of tho admission of all countries to the league may result in the withdrawal of Argentina from tho league, it was 'learned hero last night. It was said I that S cablegram was exported from Konorip Pueyrredon. Argentine for- Cign minister and chief of th- Argentine Argen-tine delegation at Geneva, notifying the government of his decision In the matter Foreign Minister Pueyrredon Is understood un-derstood to have received Instructions from his government before leaving for Europe to withdraw from the j league If it appeared the assembly would refuse admission to all sovereign sover-eign slates, and If Argentina's proposal pro-posal for the constituloq of the league on a basis of equal representor tlon of all nations, ..was not adopted. l W ( ST AltTK LK 10. i GENEVA. Dec 3 (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Presentation and ' adoption of a resolution eliminating lArtlelc X from the covenant of the league of nations before tike end of the present session of the assembly would occasion no surprise here, it was 'declared In some quarters when '1" assembly began its meeting this morn- : Ing. 1 Assort Ions wcrj made that yester-: yester-: day's decision of- the committee on the admission of new states, which I held, in effect, that the article does 'not guarantee the territorial integrity rof any member of the league, represented repre-sented the view of a majority of the delegates at the present meeting. This Interpretation, ,and the postponement of the consideration of certain changes 'in tho covenant were the principal topics of con versat!ii here today. M y i-lll R MI.DMI.N rS. These ohonges, which w ere proposed ' by Scandinavian countries said in nowise t.. prevent consideration at this (session of any other amendments. N. w Howell, a Canadian delegate, i brought this out clearly by questlon-iuk questlon-iuk A. J. Balfour, of Great Britain- The committee to which was referred re-ferred the question of how to ehoose the four elective members of the league had not reported. The question Is whether these members shall be elected for four years or two and it Is still being debated whether their terms of office should begin from the first entry of tho rounell Into operation. opera-tion. Or from the present meeting of the assembly. If the latter Idea prevails, pre-vails, tho four representatives must be elected here. The chance of Brazil returning to her place on tho council Is considered e v client, but Greece, It Is thought, will loso her place. VRTI LE 0 I PL 1KD. Article 10, of the league of nations' 'covenant does not guarantee the territorial terri-torial Integrity of any member of the league, according to the first official Interpretation of that article by tho league, unanimously adopted by the commission on tho admission of new states. This declaration Is general!) regarded as one of the most Important (decisions yet. takon by tho league members, ' The lntorpreatlon was provoked by the proposal of Giuseppe Motta, of the Swiss delegation, who asked that if the present status of Austria were changed. Vorarlberg be permitted to join Switzerland. The text of the- Interpretation In-terpretation fed lows: . I I I ItPRl I TIOX ;i I N "We can not' recommend the adoption adop-tion of the proposal put forward by M. Motta. Wo are indeed of the opinion opin-ion that the entry of Austria into tho ! league will In no ,way prOJudlco or effect ef-fect the question' so raised. Wo can j not help adding that the suggestion : that admission to the league should j have any such effect appears to arise ; f rom a misconstruction of article ten. 'it can not bo too emphatically stated, that article ten does not guarantee the territorial lntcgrlt',Mi any monihor of the league. All It does Is to condemn external aggression on territorial Integrity In-tegrity and tho political Independence of any member of tho league and call upon the council to consider what can be done to resist such aggression." Mr. Motta made the point that Vornreberg at a rcceni plebiscite Indl-cated Indl-cated Its desire to Jo with Switzerland. Switzer-land. Ho contended that under article ! ten. Vorarlberg would be prohibited from becoming part Switzerland lahould Austria at a iTrtgr .date Join Germany, and the purpd pi his proposal pro-posal wuj to remove any obstacle In the way of Vorarlberg. |