NEWS OF THE WEEK
DECISIVE though the Saar plebiscite has been, quite enough minor problems remain to give rise to some perplexity and anxiety. The' change-over in currency from francs to marks; decision as to the pension rights of officials, transfer of the railWaYs 'and mines and the Whole administration of the territory; cannot be carried out in twenty-four hours," though the process will be greatly facilitated by the Study of all these questions carried' out by the League Council's Saar sub-committee under. Baron Aloisi. And in addition there is the larger question raised by the French regarding the inclusion of the Saar Territory in the demilitarized zone on the left bank of the Rhine. But here the Germans agree in principle and only details remain to be settled. If the territory can be actually handed over on March 1st, the date which the _League Council appears to have decided on, both Germans and Saar- landers have every, reason to be satisfied. The Inter- national Force will, no doubt, be needed till then; and the possibility of some difficulty. in the territory has to be faced, for a dispOsition to challenge the authority of a Governing Conunissicin now in tntimlo mortis is not unlikely. But the fact that both Paris and Berlin want to get the whole Saar business cleared up as Soon as possible is a guarantee that no serious trouble will arise.
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