Other items of news from Geneva are that the Mandates
Commission has reported in favour of an extra member for itself and that Germany has provided one. The same Commission has considered the question of the " sovereignty " of the Union of South Africa over South West Africa and does not endorse General Hertzog's interpretation of that relation between a Mandatory power and the " mandated " country. Sir Edward Hilton Young proposed, and Herr Stresemann supported the suggestion, that there should be a permanent body- at Geneva whose duty it should be to 'carry on the work of the recent Economic Conference. Sir Austen Chamberlain expressed the sympathy of His Majesty's Government with the Finance Committee's scheme for sharing financial guarantees to a "victim of aggression," though he had to say that the sanction of Parliament for such a liability Would probably not be obtainable until more progress towards disarmament was achieved. Lastly, the League has accepted a generous offer from Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, junr., of $2,000,000 to found a library.
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