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Second Committee; Dr. Munch in
the Third, Mr. Mohr in the Fourth,
Mr. Simonsen and Mrs. Begtrup in
the Fifth, Dr. Munch and Mr. An-
dersen in the Sixth and Mr. Frisch
and Dr. Christiani in the Seventh
Committee.
In the Second Committee Dr.
Christiani advocated a continuation
of the work for a systematic inter-
national codification of rules and
regulations concerning road-traffic
and road-signals.
In the Fifth Committee Mrs. Beg-
trup spoke of the investigations Mr.
Kemp has carried on in Denmark
during the last few years concerning
prostitution. It has been found that
about 20 per cent. of the prostitutes
are feeble-minded and 50 per cent.
naturally deficient. In Denmark a
new system is being tried: Prosti-
tutes, who come in conflict with the
Law, are not punished but sent to
private special homes in the coun-
try and given house-work. The re-
sults have been gratifying.
In the Sixth Committee Mr. Hol-
ger Andersen was elected rappor-
teur for mandates. He opened the
debate on these complicated pro-
blems with an exposé of the work
accomplishéd by the League and
especially by the Mandates Com-
mission in the last year, spoke at
some lenght of Palestine and Syria
and wound up by declaring that
the mandatory system introduced
by the League, in spite of all the
difficulties encountered, now as be-
fore, in some of the mandated ter-
ritories, in most of these had
proved very helpful and of bene-
fice to the population. It was of
some importance for the League to
make this known in this difficult
period and emphasize that the
standing Mandates Commission can
claim its part of the laurels.
In the sub-Committee for Re-
fugees Mr. Andersen warmly sup-
ported the Norwegian efforts for
the continuation of the work of the
Nansen Office for Refugees, and
gave his whole-hearted support to
the views expressed by Mr. Hans-
'son, the President of the office, as
regards the necessity of continuing
this humanitarian work which has
given so fine results.
In the Seventh Committee Mr.
Frisch was elected rapporteur for
the question of spreading knowledge
about the activities of the League
and stressed the importance of in-
stalling at the Radio des Nations
a long-wave sender, whose trans-
missions might reach the long-wave
stations in Europe. He also pro-
posed to install a special room in
the League building where dele-
gates could listen in, and to take
sonorous films from the meetings
of the Assembly. Furthermore he
suggested that, in the future when
members were appointed to the In-
ternational Commission for Intel-
lectual Co-operation, not only men
of science should be chosen but also
such personalities which might be
qualified to work for more general
lines of intellectual co-operation.