enquiry will be to ascertain whether or not a child speaks
the schooi language used in the minority school so that it
can usefully attend that school."
I t was decided that the method of enquiry should be as
follows: In every doubtful case the local authorities were to
refer the question to the President of the Upper Silesian
hfixed Commission, assisted by a Swiss national, who would be
an expert in educational matters, appointed in principle by
the Council of the League of Kations. If, in view of the
expert's opinion as to the child's knowledge of German, the
President declared that it would be useless for the child to
attend the minority school, the child would be excluded from
that school.
This system of enquiry was also to be applied in the case
of children in respect of whom the perçons legally responsible
for their education had declared at the enquiry of 1926 that
their mother-tongue was Polish, should these persons express
a desire to that effect.' In such cases, the child in question
was to be allowed to enter the minority school if, in view of
the expert's opinion as to its knowledge of German, the
President declared that the child could usefully be admitted
to that school.
The Resolution in question was adopted after a discussion
in the coiirse of which the German representative pointed
out that the report to the Council left open the legal question
raised in connection with the case.
The Polish Government, by means of a note from the Polish
delegation to the League of Nations to the Secretary-General,
dated October 18th, 1927, requested the Rapporteur to the
Council upon the question to give a decision as to whether
the systeni of enquiry established by the Council Resolution
of March ~ z t h ,1927, was to be applied, in accordance with
sub-paragraph 3 of paragraph I I (quoted above) to 735
children of the school-year 1927-1928. This step was taken
in accordance with paragraph IV of the above-mentioned
Resolution, which runs as follows :
"Any question concerning the execution of the above
provisions which the Polish Government or the President
of the Mixed Commission may desire to have investigated
shall, for greater convenience, be definitely settled by the