Extract from the "Daily Herald": reactions to the Council's decision, Germany avoided a discussion on Nazi Jew-baiting in Upper Silesia, decision to appoint a Committee of jurists to examine F. Bernheim's right to speak for Silesia.
Extract from "The Times": reactions to the Council's decision, Germany refused to accept the Council's report and disputed the legitimacy of the petitioner's right, F. Bernheim, to bring the matter before the Council.
Extract from the "Irish Times": reactions to the Council's decision, Germany disputed the legality of F. Bernheim's petition.
Extract from the "Chicago Tribune" (Paris): Germany objected that the Bernheim petition was invalid, the Council of the League of Nations decided to appoint three jurists to make a report on the legality of the Bernheim petition complaining that Germany had infringed the rights of the Jewish minority in Upper Silesia, the Council's reporter declared that the German Government's anti-Semitic measures clearly violated the provisions of the German-Polish Pact guaranteeing the minorities in Upper Silesia.
Extract from "The Times": F. Bernheim protested that the Jews were being discriminated in the German Upper Silesia contrary to the 1922 Convention between Germany and Poland, he declared Upper Silesia was a plebiscite area, in which national minorities had special rights, F. Bernheim approached the League of Nations because as a Jew he was himself deprived of his position as a school teacher, S. Lester presented his report, but objection of the German representative arguing that the Council was exceeding its legal powers and that F. Bernheim was not attached to Upper Silesia by any family ties.
Extract from the "Manchester Guardian" on Upper Silesian Jews: the Geneva Convention of 1922 treated the Jews as a minority and provided that they should enjoy the rights of equal citizenship, German Jews in general based their claim not on their status as a minority but on their right to equality as citizens.
Extract from the "Irish Press": S. Lester appointed as mediator, S. Lester's compromise rejected by the German Government.
Extract from the "Irish Press" on the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute over the Gran Chaco frontier area and the necessity for sending a commission of enquiry; with a map.
Extract from the "Daily Telegraph": Germany was joined by Italy in his attitude to refuse the League of Nations' decision in regard to the Bernheim petition relating to the Jews in Upper Silesia, the Committee of Jurists agreed that the Bernheim petition was justified under the Geneva Convention of 1922.
Flag floating over the Colombian city of Leticia, it was an emblem of the ending of nine months of "undeclared war" between Peru and Colombia.