2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 3

The Seventh Assembly of the League of Nations ended last

Saturday. Now that Germany is a member the League is much more firmly established—that is the central fact of the recent session. We must also refer to the proceedings at Geneva in connexion with the World Court. The United States Senate made certain reservations, one of which was to the effect that the Court must entertain no request in which the American Government claimed an interest unless American consent had been obtained. The Connell of the League has, of course, several times referred problems to the Court without asking the consent of .other members of the League, Yei America, who Is not a member of the League, demands a privileged position. The Senate seems to have run Considerably ahead of President Coolidge's Opinion, which was merely s' that America could not be bound by advisory opinions 'rendered by

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* 4 * 4 the Court without American 'consent.