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Show BRAZIL FALLS II LINEAT GENEVA LEAGUE OF NATIONS DELEGATES ENTHUSIASTIC OVER MOVE OF BRAZ1LLIANS Problem of Harmonizing Viewpoint With Security and Disarmament Dis-armament to the Front Geneva. Brazil has joined with the other nations in dedicating herself her-self to the determination expressed before the league of nations assembly assem-bly henceforth to make compulsory arbitration the foundation of international inter-national law and the very basis of human society. At a dinner given in honor of all the delegations by Afranio Mello Franco, former Brazilian Braz-ilian minister of the interior, this international commitment was hailed as marking a new era of international internation-al relations. There is, however, in Geneva, no illusion. Everybody realizes clearly that the hardest road is yet to be traveled for the assembly must solve the intricate problem of harmonizing the conflicting views as to how compulsory com-pulsory obligatory arbitration can be made acceptable. England stands virtually alone in wishing to divorce it from military sanctions and penalties. By the side of France almost all the other nations na-tions have ranged themselves, adopt ing the cryptic French slogan that arbitration, security and disarmament disarma-ment are one and indissoluble. The Journal Des Geneve, which specializes in international politics and is read attentively in every chancellory chan-cellory of Europe, prints an editorial upon the formidable significance of Great Britian's acceptance in principle prin-ciple of obligatory arbitration, pointing point-ing out that this may place her in the future at the mercy of a sum mons from Afghanistan or Egypt to the court of international law. "We cannot apreciate Premier MacDonald's desire for more precis-Ion precis-Ion in the world court's clause before subscribing to it." says the paper. "He seems especially fearful in time of war the right of capture by the British navy might be contested, for example, by the L'nited States." Germany's reopening of the qucs tion of war responsibility was another an-other topic of discussion in Geneva. Frenchmen said that, despite the al lied premiers' counsel, they feared the Berlin government would insi.-t upon proclaiming Germany g'j;:ts. The opinion was1 expres-ed that thi might seriously jeopardise any favorable fav-orable action on Germany's adren ! sion to the league, though it is uri-j uri-j versally recognized that German a l lherer.ee to the league is neoe-saiy to ' the s'jc-e,-:"ul r. formation of inter-I inter-I national law. |