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League Gives Its Approval to Saar Pact

December 6, 1934
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The extraordinary session of the Council of the League of Nations today unanimously approved of the Franco-German agreement which limits the protection of the Jews in the Saar to one yearly only if the Saar plebiscite next month turns the territory over to Germany.

The supreme tribunal which the League of Nations has set up for the Saar plebiscite will be the organization to deal with every complaint coming from Jews or any other minority in the Saar and to decide whether the complaints are justified. A year after the plebiscite, this tribunal will be dissolved, since its existence will no longer be necessary.

Despite assurances given by numerous French and Czechoslovakian statesmen to Jewish delegates in the course of the last few weeks that they would see to it that Jewish rights should be fully

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