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mission to the Council to enable it to take appropriate steps
at the right moment. Thus the dejure recognition of Georgia
by the Great Powers and by the Supreme Council twice led
to a resolution by the plenary Assembly; in this respect the
problem of Georgia differs from that of the Ukrainians and the
other nationalities. Further, eminent Englishmen and French-
men, like Professor Gilbert Murray, M. Herriot, M. Paul-
Boncour and the late M. Poincare, have expressed themselves
in no uncertain terms, whether at Geneva or in their own
Parliaments, on Moscow's procedure with regard to the
Georgians. (M. Poincare said in the Chamber of Deputies on
June 2, 1922: "The French Government could not agree to
discuss a question of this nature with the representatives of
the Government in power, which has expelled the regular
Government from Georgia.")
What made it possible to draw the attention of world public
opinion, andmore especially of the League delegates, to Georgia,
is the fact that the Georgian constituent assembly, at its last
session at Batum on March i831921, had adopted a resolution
instructing the Government to proceed abroad in order "to
take appropriate steps for the restoration and the independence
of the country." Headed by the President Jordania, the Govern-
ment accordingly proceeded to Paris, where it began its labours.
Georgia thus differs from the other peoples and nationalities
living in Russia in possessing popularly elected representatives
abroad, a body comprising all parties and actually including
Socialists. Among them there are former deputies of the
Third Duma, including Gegechkori, who was one of the
leading revolutionary personalities in the old Empire.
The two League resolutions, however, had no practical
results. In the autumn of 1934* when the admission of the
Soviet Union to the League came up for discussion, the
Georgian representatives appealed to the Governments of the
various countries and to tie League president and delegates.
They referred to the two League resolutions and to the de jure