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LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PREPARES FOR MOVE
Assembly By Unanimous Vote Decides
To Help Armenia?Appeal
To Powers To Send
Assistance
Geneva, Nov. 23.?The assembly
of the league of nations decided
without a dissenting vote today to
appeal to the powers in the hope of
finding a government willing to uni?l_i.?
between the Tur
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kish nationalists under Mustapha
Kemal Pasha and the Armenians.
An earnest debate preceded the
vote on the resolution which was
presented by M. Vivani, former
premier of France irfviting the council
of the league to take the action
indicated. It threatened at times
however, to justify the predictions
of the league's opponents that the
work of the assembly would founder
on the rule requiring a unanimous
vote.
Lord Robert Cecil, A. J. Balfour,
Rene Vivani, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen,
C. J. Doughterty (Canada) and M.
Stalaiovoch (Jugo-Slavia) participated
but the real contest was between
M. Vivani and Mr. Balfour.
Mr. Balfour explained the failure
of the league council to find a mandatory
for Armenia. He referred to
the refusal of the United States to
accept such a mandate, and hoped
:a~l ? 4-1%^ o ocomhlv
that uie Commiuec vx V11V ?WWVM??r.jr
might do better.
The former French premier pleaded
warmly for prompt action, provoking
the first enthusiastic demonstration
of the assembly.. He declared
that if the assembly was unable
to do better than name another
committee it would proclaim its own
importance.
It was remarked that Lord Robert
Cecil applauded vigorously from the
, South African bench while the English
delegates, Mr. Balfour and H. A.
L. Fisher, remained stolidly indifferent.
It seemed evident that Mr.
Balfour was fighting against an
eventual military expedition more
than against mediation as proposed
by M. Vivani. Although Dr. Nansen
was the only one, to speak boldly in
favor of an expeditionary force to
deal with the Turkish nationalist
leader, Mustapha Kernel Pasha all
the others with the exception of Mr.
Balfour, approached as closely as
* they could this eventuality without
actually saying so.
The general impression after the
debate was that the assembly favored
fighting Kemal Pasha if no other
way was found to end the conflict in
Armenia.
There was a moment of supreme
tension when the vote was reached,
as the attitude of Mr. Balfour seemed
to indicate that he would prevent
a unanimous vote. M. Vivani, Lord
> Robert Cecil, Gastoa Da Cunha, M.
La Fontaine (Belgium) Hjalmar
Branting and Dr. Nansen conferred
and decided to combine on the proprycitinn
as aHvnratpH hv the French
and South African delegates.
To the great relief and surprise of
the assembly Mr. Balfour was one of
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Washington, Nov. 27?Abolition of
the Department of Interior, creation
of two new departments?one to be
known as the Department of Public
Works and the other as the Depart!
ment of Public Welfare?and general
[ reorganization of other government[
al departments is proposed by a bill
| prepared by Senator McCormick, Republican,
Illinois, for introduction at
| the coming session of Congress.
Senator McCormick is now enroute
I to Europe and the principal provijsions
of his bill were outlined in a
i statements issued today from his office.
The statement said that the
Illinois senator after completing the
measures discussed the proposed
changes with Mr. Harding, "who expressed
great interest in the bill."
The proposed Department of Public-Works
under the bill would include
all important engineering and
building services of the government.
The Department of Public Welfare
as outlined in the bill would include
various welfare agencies of the gov
emment, such as the woman's bureau
now1 in the Department of Labor,
the pension bureau now in the
Department of the Interior, the public
health service, the bureau of war
risk insurance, and the vocational
training board.
The Department of Commerce
I would be enlarged so as to increase
! its usefulness to business.
j The McCormick measure also would
j^bolish the board of mediation and
conciliation and transfer its funcj
tions to the Department of Labor and
discontinue the council of national
defense. <
Senator Lodge, Republican leader
j of the Senate, said today that the
j Republican majority did not plan to
J take up legislation looking to reorjganization
of the government deIpartments
until after the>. inauguration
of President-elect Harding.
| Mr. Lodge indicated that consideri
ation of any legislation for postponement
of the December 15 payment of
lincomo and excess profits taxes as
! advocated by some business interests
would be impossible because of lack
jcf time.
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the first to rise and vote in favor of
the resolution The council of the
league met this evening but took no
action relative to the resolution.
Mr. Balfour on leaving the assem;
bly room, was asked what action
! had been taken. He shrugged his
shoulders and merely described the
proceedings as "That curious meeting
this morning."
Dr. Da Cunha of Brazil in replying
to a question.as to what action]
had been taken, said: "Unfortunate)
, ly, no action has been taken." I
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