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The article presents information on various political developments around the world. The U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson has received a note from Turkey. But Wilson's lips have been sealed hitherto by consideration for the oppressed races exposed to wanton brutality of their Turkish rulers. The Taryba, or State Council of Lithuania, elected under the control of the German army of occupation, chose as King Duke William of Urach. But the German government has declared that Lithuania had no right to select kings without consulting Prussia, and that the Taryba had been improperly elected and did not represent the population.

This article presents information on the meeting of the League of Nation during the year 1924. The decision regarding Memel, made by the committee headed by Norman H. Davis, has been ratified by the Powers, and accepted by Lithuania with only slightly disguised eagerness. Poland is quite openly dissatisfied, but her protests were overruled. Memel is granted to Lithuania with certain minor reservations protecting Polish commerce on the Niemen. The Council of the League appropriated 50,000 Swiss francs for the starving population of northern and eastern Albania and issued an appeal to the world for help. The Little Entente and the Hungarian delegates reached an agreement which will permit the League to carry out a program of financial stabilization in Hungary such as has been applied to Austria.

Oklahoma is indulging in another of her periodic civil wars. Her temperamental governor, H. S. Johnston refused to call the legislature into special session in order that it might impeach him, and a majority of the legislature decided that it had an inherent right to convene, and met. Poland and Lithuania, in the persons of their premiers, jointly declared before the Council of the League of Nations that they both wanted peace, and the declaration was hailed with a curious outburst of applause as a great moral victory for the League of Nations.

After four years of frustrated efforts the small republic of Lithuania has at last succeeded in getting a hearing before the Council of the League of Nations on the subject of her lost capital of Vilna. Apparently there will be many rounds before a final decision can be given. The Conference of Ambassadors assigned Vilna to Poland by their decision of March, 1923, a decision bitterly protested by Lithuania. In the last year or two there have been apparent efforts on the part of the Polish Government to create an impression that the Lithuanian Government was coming to see the folly of its way and that amical relations were imminent.

Some form of alliance is obviously inevitable for the little nations which have sprung up in what were formerly the Baltic provinces of Russia. Various Polish statesmen have sought to bring Lithuania, Latvia, and Esthonia into an alliance, and for a time it seemed possible to include Finland in the group. The Swedish minority there, however, successfully opposed this project. Lithuanian resentment of Poland's cavalier attitude in the Vilna dispute naturally prevented a Polish-Lithuanian rapprochement. For a time, at the Genoa Conference of 1922, Poland, Esthonia, Latvia, and Soviet Russia worked together by common agreement.