The Council of die League of Nations held its first
meeting on Friday week in Paris. It had been summoned by President Wilson, in accordance with the Covenant, but no American delegate attended on this historic occasion because the Senate had not ratified the Peace Treaty. M. Bourgeois, who presided, and Lord Curzon both expressed the hope that America would soon send her representative to fill the vacant chair. Lord Curzon said that Great Britain and the Dominions meant to make the League a success, and that the good work of the Labour Conference at Washington had augured well for the League's future. The first business before the Council was the appoint- ment of the Commission of five—a Frenchman, a native of the Saar Basin, and three others who were to be neither French nor German—who will administer the affairs of the Saar Basin for fifteen years.
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