The Week's Activities

Wilson. Sir Eric Drummond, General Secretary of the League of Nations, at Geneva, issued on behalf of the Secretariat a statement in which he eulogized the late Woodrow Wilson and referred in glowing terms to the part he played for the League. "Mr. Wilson has gone," he concluded, "but the work to which he gave his life has only just begun." Lord Cecil, representing Britain, added: "Former President Wilson is dead, but we shall ever hear him."

Memel. Norman H. Davis, U. S. Under Secretary of State in the Wilson Administration, now head of a League commission to untangle the 'difficulties which have arisen over the port of Memel, arrived at Memel with the members of the commission to study the problem on the spot. Both Lithuania and Poland have claims to the port, which is an important sea outlet to both nations.

Arms. The League Committee on the Sale of Arms heard the U. S. case stated by Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Minister to Switzerland. The Committee then referred ad interim most of the problems before it to a subcommittee. The Committee met to try to solve U. S. objections to the St. Germain Convention, which aims at binding Governments to control private manufacture and sale of arms and at stopping international traffic in them. It was understood that the U. S. Government considered the control of manufacture and sale of arms by private firms a question for domestic politics and one on which the U. S. Congress was alone competent to act. On the question of stopping international traffic in arms, the U. S. would object to any limitation being placed on her right to sell arms on the American continent.

Naval Arms. At Rome a naval conference assembled under the aegis of the League to consider the extension of the principles of the Washington Naval Treaty to other Powers.