Show international AFFAIRS germanys germanas Germ anys admission to membership in the league of cf nations at tile september session with a permanent seat scat to in the council generally nihed as a necessity in ID the regeneration of europe was not accomplished without bitter wrangling and resulted in the loas to the league of spain and brazil those nations tint ions and poland had bad demanded that the council be enlarged and that they too be given perma nent seats this great britain I 1 would not permit tut but poland was pacified by the lie device of creating deml per ma barient nian rient seats one of which was given her spain at alii brazil both gave forme forma notice of of their withdrawal front the league in lie election of anew hers bers of the council there were some surprises auland chile and rumania wore were given the throe three year seats and poland was declared re eligible colombia orti bla holland and chlon china were elected tor for two tivo years and single year seats given to czechoslovakia belgium anti in salvador uruguay had hern been cons consid 1 1 ered a certain choice but si centra antra entra Amerl american caA ii toes combined against her lind end lj her r candidacy was the application it f turkey for mcm in tile the league was received but action was postponed for or fl a bear ear A special meeting of the league was va held in march for foi the purpose burpoe of receiving germanis germanys Germ Gorm anys application but the fight constitution of the elie counell council was so determined that the whole matter was postponed until the regular meeting after it had been settled as related above foreign ministers briand and moon slipped away to the gillage of tholey and began important negotiations for the restoration of full amity between france land and germany brianas Br BrI laoda ands peace policy was wan later inter attacked in the hie french chamber but lie he had a majority behind ill libin und binl carried it forward with good pros of success all this lime wann was pressing for BO an early slid and complete evacuation of tile the rhineland by tile the allies and lie he also demanded that tile the allied I 1 commission for control of german armain ent turn over ua its duties to the league of nations on january 27 the united lulled states sinate ei adte voted tor for american adhe adherence renee to the world court but with five reservations beighl patrons members of alic court were ned and during the guminer Eli miner seven of tile anial arnal lest accepted tile llie reservations rut pat a conference of the members was called to meet in geneva september 1 the united states stales declining to participate no aud strong opposition developed to this fifth reservation erv er A committee studied the question and recommended that filar all the reservations be accepted but bill put upon the fifth an interpretation that president coolidge declared did nm i the requirement of the among tile treaties were those between germany and Rii fushia ihla italy and spain france nod and rumania and an agreement between great brit sin bin nod and ending their llido dispute over the oil region by compromise despite these pacts and efforts en orl of Bri barland arld warin nann and others tile the prospects for lie complete restoration of amity among the nations vt of europe were none too abrl bright ht when the council of the league of nations assembled for its december meeting france was still insisting on security against german aggression on her and tier her allies to the cn hast t as a condition for evacuation of the rhineland am anil the der of killed allied control of german armaments and germany was equi equally llly insistent that since she had boon been admitted to the league of nations she must be given still full confidence and independence dc indence A coin compromise Itro nilse was reached whereby tile the control of Ger armaments will be transferred to a league of nations committee on february 1 refunding agreements with walh nil all our debtors were completed except will france 11 berenger Ce reuger sent to washington as ambassador to negotiate a settlement succeeded so tar far as united states was concerned but the ie french government was halted in every effort to have the very liberal terms accepted by the parliament meanwhile blean while france arranged a settle tn nu di dt of her debt to orent great britain throughout tile the year there was an increasing though unofficial demand in france that tile united states concel cancel abe th french eFrench debt abol abd el krim the leader of the alf claua continued tits his warfare against the french and spanish in morocco until near the ell end of may wile when ills his headquarters at Tar guist having been captured he surrendered to tile the french Fren cli by whom lie he was later sent sell I 1 into exile maj gon gen william lassiter Lass lter took over lp january the ungrateful position tion of president of tacna arlen Isel tary commission and was no more successful thun than his predecessor urn gen eral era pershing in settling tile the old controversy tro versy between peru ieru and chile so in june the whole plebiscite plan was abandoned secretary of state kot logg late in november offered another scheme that flint seemed more promising this was for chile and peru to cede ohp disputed provinces to bolivia for certain monetary considers considerations tiong and with the condition that they bey be maintained furrier as a demilitarized zone with the elie cley city of arica a free port relations between washington and mexico city were not very ery friend friendly li during durand the nie year owing to our governments repeated protests against tile the retroactive features 0 of f the mexican land and oil laws which were due to go into effect on january 1 1027 1927 president calles government was firm in its refusal to modify the laws ond and secretary kellogg kellogs warned it on october 30 that diplomatic relations would be severed if american properties should be confiscated the aeronautical conquest of the north pole should be classed lis as an international event on may 7 the italian built dirigible norge reached spitzbergen Spitz bergen ready to carry captain amundsen and his expedition over the pole but two days later inter before it started lieutenant commander P tich ard E byrl U S N and floyd rennett hopped off from SpItz spitsbergen bergen in an airplane and flew to tile the top of the world they located tile the pole but finding no loading landing place circled about it thrice brice and returned on may 11 the elie norge started next day it 11 passed over the pole and on may 13 it 1 landed safely at teller aliska alaska with were lincoln ellsworth of the united states kates who helped finance the expedition and col nobile nobble of italy pilot of the dirigible the nobel peace prize for ws aps awarded to vice president charles 0 dawes and sir austell chamber lain that for 1925 1 was divided between tween arl itlie urland nod and gil gustav S t UT marin |