Week's Work

P: Though the Argentines and the Portuguese, the Peruvians and the Swiss and a few others objected. Russia was finally admitted to full membership in the League last week and won a permanent seat on the highly important League Council as well. Henceforth Soviet Russia will take its place with Britain, France and Italy in running the League's business.

Chief Russian delegate was that old veteran of Geneva conferences, roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but in future he will have two confreres to assist him. Vladimir Potemkin, Ambassador to Rome, and Boris Stein, Minister to Helsingfors.

P: Comrade Litvinoff was proud to be the first League delegate to sign a petition presented by Miss Madeleine Doty of New York, the Misses Alice Hall and Mabel Vernon of Washington, demanding equal rights for women.

Other League Work of the Week:

P: Pondering deeply, its juridical comittee overruled Paraguay's quibble that the League was unable to intervene to settle the Chaco War because Article XV of the League Covenant referred only to disputes "likely to lead to a rupture," whereas Bolivia and Paraguay actually were at war.

P: Pressure from Britain, France and Italy finally forced Poland to withdraw its suggestion that all national minority treaties growing from the War be scrapped for a new universal minority treaty.

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