LEAGUE 0? MATIONS,

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EüNGAHIAN-SPEAKING GRESi: OATOOLIG MINORITES IN RCUMAFIA. Note by the Secretary-Generals

In accordance with the Council1a Resolution of June

27tli, 1921, tho Secretary-General forwarded to the Rouir.auian

Government on March 17 th, 1923, for- its oh nervations, a cony of a petition dated January 31st, 1923, from the Greek-

Catholic Hungarians’ General Committee, with regard to the situation of Hungarian-speaking Greek Catholics in Roumania, «l>his petition had been forwarded to the Secretariat hy the

Hungarian Society of Foreign Affairs, At the request of the Roumanian Government, the President

of the Council extended for one month the period of two

months fixed in the Resolution of June 27th,1921, within which observations on this petition might be submitted. The

Secretary-General has received a note, dated May 25th, 1025,

from the Roumanian Minister for foreign Affaire^ for-war ding a Memorandum containing-the Roumanian Government1s observations

on the petition„

The Secret ary-General has the honour to communicate

herewith these documents for the information of tho Members of

the Council and of the league, -1-

I, PETITION TïïB G T ^ K CATHOLIC HUNGARIANS'

ÇL±COîÏÏjTTTEE^

Budapest, 31st January, 1923»

Sir,

The Greek Catholic Hungarians General Co u t itt.ee/.Budapest

VII. Hottonbiller utoa 5/3./ through the medium of the

Hungarian Society of Foreign Affairs which is a member of the Union of the League of Nations presents the following request

which it believes to belong to the jurisdiction of the

League of Nations: Acting upon the repeated request of the Greek Catholic

Hungarians, the Holy See founded on June the dth, 1912 the

Greek Catholic Bishopric and Diocese of H&^dudorog. Tho

"bulla pr-palis” vfa ich decreed the foundation of this Diocese, used the following language : n Jam vero inter fideles graeci

ritus excreverunt etiar qui lingua hungarica utun bur, quiquo a Sane ta Se de instan tissime notierunt ut diocesis proln.sdem conderelrer". The public census of 1910 established 304, 922 Greek

Catholics in Hungary whose mother tongue was Hungarian, Of

th-'se only 183,575 belong to the diocese of Hajdudorog, the

irajor party of the missing 1 2 0 , 747 Greek Catholics of Hungarian mother tongue residing to-day in the territories which the

Treaty of Trianon assigned to Rumania, thereby ignoring

ethnographical conditions. e * * ..

A w v j r O-ij-Lg On a . «A I _ 3 . u 3. Q tr. U-UiiO ^ i/j.o o .. j 1 „ j , . o s. L tsrishos •: f the same Diocese y situated in the former counties s

0f TFgoosa, Ssata av and Bihar, 1 parish of the Crook Cotnoli ;

Diocese of Esgy^a::-s.a » 42 In all, m c l u d m g 5XSCX parishi-.-nerc of whom only 3440 do not speak Hungarian fluently - were assigned to the '.Rumanians. There eie in addition 35 Gh-oek Gath olio Hungar ian parishes with 19 761. parishioners situated in the so-called nSztekelyfoldn> "land of the % eklers” in i’ransyl'v ania , which a Is* "belonged to tho Die-ce so of Hajdudor g and are to-day assigned to Humania, Of these last mentioned perishloners only 2253 do not speak Hungarian fluently. It is claimed on practically inoontroverti'ble evidence that tho new Go'f^rnment of Great or Hunan 3. a m violation cf tho existing treaties uses every means at its dsspoooX to reduce tho hrunhe x of Hungarian-1 residing on its respective terri inrissc +o illustrate this contention it can X-3 s ta tod that the Rumanian authorities do not recognise the Hungarian nationality of toe

Greek Catholic Hungarians passed under their jurisdiction» This is shovm and evidenced Doth hy their census reports and etherwise„

ïheir theory seems co he that the Greek Catholics can only he ‘BimianianS, a theory which is manifestly wrong and disproved hy the facts of the caseUnder this theory they compel all Greek Catholics m spite of desperate protests of thoir parents to attend Human!an schools only and positive3.y refuse them per- m;.ssi-'n to register in Hungarian schools provided cf course those latter have any xvay not been closed j.n the various d:‘ strio 13 long ago „

It is evident that the open denial of the us e of tLe

Hungarian language, box uoin school and c-hurch, constitutes a flagrant violation o f the existing treaties -which g oa ran bee full freedom and equality to all mi.ooriti.es "both in the svlioolfi and in , - 3 -

It is claimed that these Greek Catholic^ Hungarians

live under a system of political coercion which makes it impossible for them to present their complaints in the premises

in their own name.. This is why the Greek Catholic Hungarian G-eneral Committee mentioned above makes bold to speak for them, Inasmuch as this question is also one which belongs

to the Jurisdiction of the K^ly See - as far as the reassignment of the above parishes to the Diocese of Hajdudorog is concerned -

steps have been taken to bring this matter to the attention of

the respective authorities of the Church, Considering, however, that it is also one of inter­

national law and seeing that, in tho Treaties already concluded, Rumania has agreed that the League of Nations shall be the

guar ant/) r of the rights of minorities, our Society of Foreign

Affairs deems it proper to identify itself with the wishes of the mentioned Committee and respectfully appeals to you that the

League of Nations may be informed of this matter and appropriate me ans and ways m y be found that the rights of the Greok Catholic

Hungarians shall be effectively pro tec ted = We have the honour to request you for the favour of a reply and also to request you that the decision of the league of Sations in the premises may be communicated to us in due time»

HUNGARIAN SOCIETY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

(Signed) Count Albert Apponyi»

Note by the Secretariat, Th$ tables giving the details of the number of Greek Catholics, the number of Hungarian spea.k5.ng, non Hungarian speaking persons in the various parishes now under Roumanian jurisdiction and information on the language u?ed in Church services„ are kept in the Secretariat and at the disposal of the members of the League, - 4 -

M TüEB ALIEN RULE. 'dumber of Of whom the All (.-reek following. Ca oholic s, speak speak Hungar­ net ian. B'iir.-g al ­ ia "i ,

! parishes under Czechish rule 36655 34035 2620

1 parishes under Rxunanian rule 70662 649 69 5693

4 parishes Total*. 107317 :99004 : 8313 The language nf the parishioners used for the Church service

and tho language of the sermons showed the following proportion : The language of the The language of the Church service. sermons> It was entirely Hungaria:d It was entirely Hungarian in 51 parishes in 72 Parishe Hungarian - 'Ruthenian Hungarian - Ruthenian in .10 in 7 "

Hangarian - Rüm&nian Hungarian - Rumanian TT in 'i . in 4 !7as entirely Rut he ni an 3 IT was entirely Rubhânian n n Rumanian 32 Ti in IT ” n Rumanian 21 TT

Total 104 parishes Total 104

The pnly reason why the [Langage of tho parishioners in

tho church service was Ruthenian and Rumanian in 25 parishes and

why the sermons were helA in Rumanian in 21 parishes is because the clergy and teachers in these parishes taken over from Ruthenian

and Rumanian dioceses were chauvinists of the extreme kind and

tried to. make the Ruthenian and Rumanian lithurgical languages appear/ as having the stamp of approval of tho Church and the Hungarian

parishionera although not understanding those languages for this

rsasvn tolerated both Church service and sermons in these languages;* In the parishes mentioned of 798 parishioners in Csengerbag^s only 101 did not speak Hungarians This villa go - it may he observed also

contained 644 Hungarian members of the Reformed Church, In

C&anisslô out of 2099 Greek Catholics only 204 did not speak Hungarian -5-

but the village had in eddition 25 39 Hungarian residents

who were members of the Homan Catholic and Heformed ChurchesD

In Piskolt out of 1237 Greek Catholics only 91 did not speak

Hungarian, hut there ware in addition 1264 residents of

IIung»rian mother tcngus who belonged to the Homan Catholic and ileforred Churches, It is clear therefore that the

language used by the whole population of these villages could

not have been any other but the Hungarian., which language

everybody understood, although as above-mentioned,, tbs language of the oliurch service r.nd serrons was the Rümaniau which goes to show that even at the tire cf Hungarian rule

the Rumanian Church authorities use! arbitrary methods to eliminate as much as possible the use of the Hungarian

language from, both church and school and the Hungarian

Government tolerated this abuse out of an ill interpreted sense

of liberalism» It may be easy to surmise what the conditions

to-day are* Let us add that the data referring to the

Church service and sermons are drawn from the statistlus as kept by the local parsons which were annually submitted to

the Central Bureau of Statistics, They data from the year Ie* 3-8 <> ÏJN. KE^'IT 2RÜM THE RQTH^ÏAN aCV~! ^ •}:■•;?.,

Under the Roumunion Constitution> Roumanian nationals,

8re guaranteed on tiro freedom ox conscience r n3 cf elr cation, •rithout distinction of race.. language or religion-. Meûfoers cf the Greek Catholic million 'therefore enjoy in Roumania the same

liberty and the some autonomy as oil other religions

denomination^ in the Kingdom, whatever the nationality of their

adherents, They are gr nted a most liberal measure cf self- government in all matters connectai with Pastoral Ldicts,ritual and the language used in religicns services and den cm.ûnational

schools o Since, hovovor. the Hungarian Society for "Jcrnign Affairs has raised this question, we deer it advisable to disclose tho real character of the Hungarian Diccoso of d:i og^ the creation of which vas an outrageous and reprohon 3ihlio act of intolerant Chauvinism on the part of the former Hungarian regime- It should he noted, in the first place, that, contrary te­ sta tements made in this Memorandum, the Bio ce 20 cf J tv . jCudrog was established for political and not for religious pmpcses.-»

This is the light in which it has al.vays "been regarded both by the Hungarian authorities concerned and also hy Magyar pi:0lie opinion»

The Roam.anians in the former Hungarian Llcnarchy, deprived

°f the political status which should have teen theirs in virtue °~ their numbers, persecuted, and entirely deterred -from

Participation in public affairs* turned to their Choreb, the only hoeÿ -7- a"ble to afford their, sure protection The only education the^ received w«> 3 that afforded "by the Ohuroh and its m inisters, In order to destroy this 1- st refuge of the Roumanian national spirit, successive Hungarian Governments, therefore created the Diooese of Hajdudorog, to which they attache!

83 parishes, which had formerly been under the jurisdiction of the Roumanian dioceses of Grades-Mare, Gherla and Blaj»

The creation of this Diooese was announced on June 10th,

1912, in the "Budapesti-Hirlap,,T the semi-official orgen of the Hungarian Gov arnm.ent at that time, in an article ontitlod: nA Magyar Bishopric ”, Tho actual text of the article was as follows:- ,vIt is an accomplished fact ,f verbum caro factum est”

the creation of this Diocese is a great national accomplishment-, and we have no reason to hide the fact that its success is due to Hederwary and IiUkaos, and that, for the first time, the Party of National Action f as the party of Tissa, who was then in power, was called.) has justified its name and shown its real qualities. Exhausted as we are with political intrigues, wearied and disheartened by the struggle of party quarrdis between Magyar poli tic i an s, the news of this Diocese, this -pénétration of

Magyarism, is to us as a golden cup filled with fresh water, bringing us renewed life and youth,”

ladislas Lukacs and his Austrian colleagues are opposed at Vienna by the military, who are celling for steal guns to supersede bronze guna, for dreadnoughts, fresh weapons, and millions of money,.,...... 'fa do not know what will be the outcome of their struggle with the Generals, but, in our hf>nds, whose munitions ere letters in leaden type, who mobilise ideas and are spreading the light of knowledge, 15ve and labour, luckaos (then Prime Minister of Hungary) has placed

a weapon of heavy calibre. Ho has wrought it as G-aLpn Aron -TTought his guns, who hed neither bronze nor steel, but melted

down the "bells of Sioule (Sekler) villages to mpke his guns, so that/bhe very shot they fired sounded the patriotism of the Sicules ( Seklers) , and Sabor Aron won battle after battle for

the Magyars.TT ''?or us this Magyar Diooese is suoh another p n » ”

’’Dot us hone that it ray "bocone the eentre of Magyar

national spirit," Thus nil who come under the protection of

this Diooese will "be united. T’It is a gun which does not deal

out death, but rather love and salvation, Magyar patriotism and

Magyar faith»”

In the leading article on April 12th, 1913, in tho ’’Magyar

Nem.izet”, the mouthpiece of Count Stefan Tisza, there appeared

the following, t'*jo months before the publication of the Papal

Dqli rf Christ! fideles Gre.ool’T which created the Diocese of

Hajdudorog: n The Diocese which is about to "be created signifies

the strongthening of the national character of the Magyar State»„

it signifies a great success for the Magyar Government, both from an international and from, the Magyar national point of view» ” For this reason its realisation "should cause every Magyar who loves his country to rei'oice0w

Another important Hungarian newspaper, the ’’Pesti Hirlap,” in its issue of September 10th, 1912, demanded that the residence of the new Gre-,3: Catholic Dishop should be situated not at Hajdudrog, as provided In the Pa^al Bull, but at

Debreczin, because ,T the great Chur oh there is the national sanctuary in which Ilossuth proclaimed his country's independence in 1649=” "Here it ia that the no-/ Bi.3h.op .hould ho in stall-;;-l, in

or dor that ho me. 7/ bo 00 no ta.ntly reminded that the now Diocese

is intended not merely to preserve thu status quo of Magyar

natiotml feeling, hut to develop this feeling by all available means, and to Magyarise complet-il y the neighbouring parishes

of Oradea-Mure, G-horla, Lugo j arid Blaj.”

" 7e must he -prepared for a perpetual struggle b p tween

the Hungarian Greek Gatholio and the I?oumeniar|3 ., ”

The Article goes on to say that, "his Bishop's principal duty (that is to say, the Hungarian Greek Catholic) will not be to spend his strength in defending denominational interests. His supreme mission will bo to carry on relentless struggle for the advancement of the sacred cause of Magyar!sation.” The Bishop of Hajdudorog, Stefan iliklossy, held the same view of the part to be play3d by his Diocese ; in an interview with the "Magyar Kurir" Agency, he stated pi at :

”our desire is _to_Haygariso those Greek-0 athollos who aro of

Roumanian nationality, "and for this reason he shared the opinion that the Diooese could carry out its national duty more satisfactorily if the Bishop1s residence were at Debrecxin"* (Budapest! Hiral, January 13th, 1914.).

That the creation of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Diocese by the successive Hungarian Governronts was a .vork 0 $ denationalisation, is proved not only by the unanimity of tho statements which appealed in the Budapest Press, and which were made by Hungarian leaders, but also by the manner in which the Diocese 'tos established.

It was given jurisdiction ovvr all Roumanian 10 -

parishes in which the Church1 s adherents also spoke Hungarian. and tho Governments "believed that, by breaking the spiritual ties

which bound them to the other Roumanian parishes, they could be more easily denationalised, The new Diocese possessed no territorial unity; it included parishes from every district, from Budapesth as far as the frontier of Roumanian The object of this procedure was that, after the passing of Count Apponyi's famous Education law in 1907, the numbers of the Hungarian speak- in" populaticn should increase, and should so lead to a proportionate increase in the number of parishes to he attached to tho new

Diocese. The Magyar Government was already agitating for the re­ vision of the Bull "Christifidel3s Graeci" in this direction, as is clearly shown by a speech delivered by Count Tisza in the Magyar Chamber on December 5th, 1913, and also from tho Meraor- an-aiiiTjp.t the beginning of 1914 of the General Committee of the

Hungarian Greek Catholicp. which was addressed to the Metropolitan

Primate, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Worship, requesting the attachment of 43 more Ruthenian and Roumanian parishes to the new Diocese (the full text of this Memorandum was published in the "Pesti Hirlap" on February 10th, 1914). The General Hungarian Association )Prszagas Magyar Izovetseg) also intervened in the matter by adopting at its General Meeting at Budapest on January 6 th, 1914, a motion demanding the attachment of 54 more Roumanian and Ruthenian perishes, the inhabitants of which spoke Magyar in addition to their mother tongue (this motion was published in the "Budapest! Hirlap on January 7th, 1914 ). - 11 -

The Metropolitan Primate loan Csernoeh took part in these proceedings, and personally forrarcled the above-mentioned motion tot he Vat j. c an ( 77 A z Es t ' ' Jan ua r y 27 t h, 1514 6 The Roumanians, who were perfectly well avvore of the intentions of the Magyar Government in creating the new diooese, exerted every effort to prevent its establisliment » The Roumanian Greek--Catholic sent numerous memoranda to the Holy See, exposing tho real motives behind the Hungarian scheme, Among these may be mentioned Memorandum No, 114 of November

10th, 1911, to Bavcnna, tho Papal Nuncio at Ye Inna, by the Roumanian Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Blaj, the Memorandum sent by the same Metropolitan on February 14th, 1912 to Pope Pius X. the collective Memorandum of the uni bed Roumanian Bishops, which was drawn up at the Conference of Blaj in February, 193.8, and was also sent to the Pope and Memorandum No, 6,200 which c/he 3d bishops submitted in p or g on in 1912 to Counè Ref aol Scapinelli, the Papal Nuncio at Vienna,

The adherents of the religion held meetings all over the country to protest against the attempt which was being made on them, by the Budapest Governmento, The most noteworthy of these meetings was that which took place at Alba-lulia on May 29th; 1912, at which 10,000 Greek

Catholic Roumanians from all parts of Hungary and Transylvania were present. At this meeting it was decided to send a great deputation to ., The declaration made on February 17th, 1912, by représenta­ tives of the Greek Catholic priesthood may Also be quoted here„

We reproduce the actual text:-

T1We, tho undersigned, hereby declare irrevocably, and inf ora all whom it may concern., that, knowing the past and present

history of the Greek Catholic priesthood and under IE . our charge, and their needs and spiritual ideals,

clo protest against separation from our mother Church, the

Greek-Cathulio Metropolitan See of Blaj, and agai^et our annexation to the Magyar âio-sese which it is proposed to create *

"V7e protest against such action, as being illegal

both from an ecclesiastical and also from a polit ice 1 point of view, and declare that we refuse to transfer our religious

and civil allegiance to the heads of this Magyar Greek

Catholic Diocese„17

(Here follow the signatures),

Protests and memoranda by the Roumanian Bishops and

laity, and the agitation of Roumanian public opinion in all parts, proved of no avail « The Budapest Government refused to modify

its plans, and finally obtained from Piu9 2 the Bull ,7Chr istif ideles

Graeci'7 of June 8 th, 1912, creating the Magyar Greek Catholic diocese of Hajdudorog»

This Bull laid down that the language used for religious services in the new diocese should be Azyient Greek f adlinguam liturgicam hujue novao erectae dioecesis quod attinet, praecipimus ut sit graeca anti qua ) and the use of Hungarian was expressly forbidden (vetita prorsus hungarica lingua quam, quum non sit liturgica in sacra liturgia nunquam adhibere licet).

nThe weapon with which national movements are to be destroyed’7 as the rrBud§pest-Eirlap71 had labelled the new diocese of Hajdudorog, now became an accomplished fact. Until the appointment of the titulay bishop, the now diocose was placed in charge of

Bishop Antoniu Pap of Ungvar (a district now belonging to

Czechoslovakia) who appointed as his Vicar-General the priest

Michael Iacskovitz, The latter immediately entered upon the

struggle for the realisation of the great national ideal which the

Government of Budapest had in view when it created this diocese, His first act was to visit the parishes which had been I “V ?’•» Hungarian. On every side the Roumanians protested? "We do not speak Hungarian; we do not knew Hungarian'1. This was the re soon :e he me t with everywhere, even in the schools. The Vicar-General mado tho following statement to a Budapest journalist; r,I was dumbfounded to learn that the children pray in Roumanian, and the fact has caused me great pain*” In several pieces he found the churches closed and the inhabitants tolling the bells as if some great danger were threatening» Fiery articles yoneared in the Hungarian press against nThe VlacM Revolts" (Budapest! Eivjap nf April 18th, 1913)„

The first administrative step taken by the Hungarian bishop was to abolish the teaching of Roumanian in schools of the denomination, and to introduce the Gregorian calendar (Roumanians, both Orthodox and Greek Catholic, still use the ) i;j in order to prevent the unfortunate Roumanians from celebrating their religious festivals at the same time as their co-religionista who had remained under the jurisdiction of the Roumanian bishops.

Subsequently, although according to the Bull "OhristifiJ.elos

Graoci5’, the language used in religious ceremonies was to have been ancient Greek, and although Count Rafael Scapinellrl, the

Papal Nuncio in Vienna, had issued Cn October 28th, 1912 a very strict order forbidding the holding of services in Hungarian, the

Magyar Greek Catholic bishop introduced this language into all the churches of his dioceset In his "Instructions concerning religious observances" (tempiomi u tasitas) for the year 1914, which were communicated in a Cucular Letter No„3931/913 to the priests of his diocese.

Stefan Miklossy, the first Magyar Greek Catholic bishop.makes no cention of the fact that services should be celebrated in ancient

Greek, but, ôn the contrary, he quotes all prayers and hymns in Sungarian. As the Magyar Greek-Catholic Diocese had been create i in 14. -adharents, the latter availed themselves of the first opportunity to "break free from its jiiri&die tion„

This opportunity arose at the end of 1918, when revolution

Woke out in Hungary after the disaster of Pavia,

The Roumanians of the 4G perishes which had previously belonged to the Greek Catholic Roumanian di^neses of Oradea-Maro and Gherla spontaneously severed their connection with the Magyar

Bishop Stefan Mtkloaey, and grouped themselves under the spiritual direction of a Roumanian Vicar-General, Romul Marchis, who recidod at Careii-Mari;,

They then sent'a series of telegrams and memoranda to the Papal Nuncio in Vienna, asking that they should ho given an Apostolic Administrator until they were re-united to the former Roumanian dioceses»

Greek Catholics who had been detached from the diocese of

Blaj also held a series of meetings, ao a result of which they severed connection with the Magyar diocese.

On December 21st, 1918,- a meeting was held, attended by the inhabitants of Sard, Siliorinti Andrasfalau, Sareda,

Byfbudfalau, Ghibelea, Santioana, Vetia, Mosin and Bo sin; on

December 24th a similar meeting was organised by the inhabitants of Targal-Mures, and finally, on March 13th, smother great assembly was organised at Targul-Mures, at which the clergy and inhabitants of the 35 parishes which had been forcibly attached to the Bunge rlan. diooeee declared "that they did not desire, either now or in the future, to be considered as forming part of the Magyar

Greek Catholic Diocese of Hajdudorog". The assembly also appointed a commission to deal with matters affecting the Greek Catholics. Follfising upon this struggle for emancipation, Bishop Miklo&^y aade the following declaration (Document 1256 of May IV'th, 1919); I hereby declare that I renounce my ecclesiastical authority over

Irishes which desire to leave the jurisdiction of" the diocese Eaj&udorog an^ to fth attached to other diocescs, and I volun-'

Shortly afterwards, the decision of the Groek Catholics was approved and confirmed "by the Holy Sea» Count Throdore

VaIfrS di Bonzo, the Papal Nuncio at Vienna, appointed by Decree No 16475 the Roumanian Greek Catholic Bishop of Oradea-

Ifero as Apostolic Administrator of the Roumanian parishes near the Hungarian frontier, and by Decree 17669 of J?

8 th, 1919.

Such is the position of the so-called Magyar Greek Qathnlica.

As was stated at the beginning of this Note, the Roumanian

Government, does not in any way interfere with their religion»

No complaint on this ground has ever been made by any of them.

The assertions of the "General Committee of Hungarian Greek

Catholics in Hungary" to the effect that the Roumanian Government is compelling children to attend Roumanian schools and tîoybidding them to attend Hungarian schools, are merely part of the ïïisndactious statements by which Magyar propaganda buroaux are attempting to create an atmosphere hostile to the Roumanian

Government, which, in a spirit very different from that of former Hungarian Governments, maintains in all localities in which there is a Magyar population, primary and secondary schools at which instruction is given in Hungarian, as the Roumanian Government had the honour to point out to the League of Nations in a former noto, whereas the Hungarian Government did not maintain a single state school at which instruction was given in Roumanian for the 3-g- million Roumanians who were formerly under its jurisdiction. sinAtjvA eu Oonflçll0 patres 4e la Société, fer'Eiisslcn tomporairo nlxto» Ce. 3e9ejMc177e1923, IZ, ioanis* Permanente Consultative (C„Œ*A<, 279) nciapj DBS iiAgpogs, Genève, la 8 Juin 1923»

5 M T S S I011 ggjgQ M Iitü; MXiÜPJ POUR LAwH-iDOOI-lOa -lH 3 ARMBMifllTS

Résolutions adoptées par la Commission pendant sa 7ème session (du 4 au 8 Juin 1925]=

LIÏQTATIOM DES DEPASSES ICIU.TAIHES, BAYAIS E!E JERIEpSS AUX CIllp^BS jJT’i KHÎn'. " *

"La Commission, après une étude attentive de la question, estime quTil 7 a lieu de signaler à la prochaine Assemblée co qui suit!

I} •- que "la 2ème résolution de la 3ème Assemblée ne s’applique cu:à un nombre limité d* EtatsJ 2]«- eue 1:année 1913 comme année base en matière de dépenses mi­ litaires soulève de sérieuses objections»

ïïii conséquence, la Commission est d 7avis qur il sciait opportun ds surseoir à 1:application de ladite résolution et do prier le Conseil de décider s'il convient d1inviter ^Assemblée à reprendre 1 1 examen de la question3»

> B2QÜET3 S M I & H Q K SUR T,J3 ABMEfilSIiTC JX7 TiSMPS Dl PAIX 3T LJ5S DSP Till- — "— ------"la Commission constate que le Conseil ayant prié les Gouvernements des Stats Membres de la Société c% vouloir bien remplir, avant le 1er juin, les tableaux «tat.i ccl.^Uv s qui leur avaient été remis en date du 1er mars, dix réponses seulement sont parvenues au Secré­ tariat avant cette dato„

la Commission so permet do rappeler au Conseil que oos renseignementb ent été demandés on vug 4 -une publication qui doit etre soumise à la prochaine Assemblée'-1»

iPABRIQATIOH PRIVBJjj BT CO ?r:QLl DU TRAIT C DES A . ® „ .

B^a Commission décide 4a recommander au Conseil d f inviter los Gou- *Vtixnt^nants de tous les 5oa‘'vi rcn-Membres de la Société des Dations à exprimer leur avis sur la façon dont ils désireraient ooopéror à la s o.Lu ci on du priVblèm« du trafic des armes et des munitions ot do la iabz-ication privée»°

3p3R;îB CHIMEQHE.-

"la Commission prie le Conseil dTexaminer s?il serait possible de dé­ bander aux Gouvernements représentés à la Conférence de Bashington, communication du rapport sur la guerre chimique établi par les experts tiesdits Gouvernements à ladite Conférence, afin qu'-il puisse servir aus travaux de la Commission temporaire sr;r ~ln rnSnia nn-mt.» „ v* 2 *■* „ szposjfis -D3S amaiwsmms sub Las imM oiss ,ois larm sjscüriîps m ho- -^rgggrr— — — — ~~ ---- — — — — — ------

"La Commas Inn décide da relevez dans lea rép^noes dss Gouvernements à la demande do la Société dos Hâtions en date au 13 avril 1922, les lacunes a iis présentent certaines d7 entry elles, et de prier le Conseil d*apprécier quelles? demandas supplémantaîrea pourraient être adress es par lui aux Gouvernements" dont émanent cas réponses rio^r l a s inviter à les oczer-léter3 »

6_ E0HAHS5 PS BaESBISHiiMEEKSo-

"Sur cotte question la Commission a examiné lo rapport qu’élle avait demandé au Secrétariat de lui préparer» Cs memorandum comprend deux pointe! a) la publication périodique d*un annuaire statistique ayant comme programme le dernier paragraphe de l ?articla 8 du Pacte;

b) la création de groupes d1 échanges afin d’assurer en quelque sor­ te le contrôle automatique des renseignements» Sn ce qui concerne le parag (a), la Commission décide ^ ‘’accepter la première proposition du mémorandum du Secrétariat toile qu’elle a été définie par le Président? il ne s Agirait en somme que de systématiser les résultats de 1?enquête statistique, do la tenir à jour et de publier un annuaire qui sorait le plus complet des docu­ ments de ce genre, le Secrétariat serait donc invité à publier un annuaire basé sur les renseignements puisés dans les documents of­ ficiels et relatifs au dernier parag. de l*art« 0 du Pacte".

En ce qui concerne le parag (b ) la Commission décide "safis engager quant au fond son avis sur la questi-m, de louvoyer eu Secrétariat les propositions contenues dans cette partie de son memorai dum et de lo prier de préparer un projet précis de groupement des Membres de la Société afin que la Comission puisse, lors dfune pession ul­ térieure, se rendre un compte exact ds la façon dont pourrait fonc­ tionner le système proposé3. » S3flJC!EI0H GBUSRAIiB D3S ARMSMBIiTS - TRAITS -DE G^iUliTIE MUTÏÏSLL3.- fPro jet de traité de garantie mu ta elle de Lord Robert Cecil) ; (Projet do Convention générale*d"‘assistance mutuelle présenté par lo Lt-Colonel Eéquin (France)2 (Etablissement de zones frontières démilitarisées (proposition de Lord Robert Cecil)»

FSg Commission décides

I}*- de procéder dans la session actuello, sans les sanctionner par des votes, à lT62posé et à des dispuss ions des dispositions du pro­ jet do lord"Robert Cecil, en tonant compte des autres propositions présentées à la Commission;, y compris la proposition relative aux zones démilita*iôées;

&)e~ de renvoyer à 1’examen de la Commission permanente consultât!- va et du comité spécial le projet du Colonel Héquin ot la proposi­ tion de lord'Robert Cecil relative à 1 ‘établissement de zones dé­ militarisées;

3],- de remettre à la session qutello tiendra avant la pr»chaîne Assemblée (le 31 juillet} la réduction des propositions définiti­ ves qu’elle est appelée à lui fournir**