Foreign News: Join the League?

At Lyon, where he represented Germany in the League of Nations Societies Conference, Count von Bernstorff, onetime German Ambassador to the U. S. (1908-17), said that Germany was not sentimentally interested in the League, hinted that his country would like to join but feared a rebuff from France or Britain or both.

Said he: "There are four remaining difficulties—two on each side— between Germany and the other Powers. I see no reason why they cannot be solved in London. France is concerned with a reparations settlement through operation of the...

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