DELEGATION OF 70

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 303, 18 September 1936, Page 9

DELEGATION OF 70

Britain, and League of Nations Meeting MOMENTOUS ISSUES Probable Action on Reform Question By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright (Received September 18. 1.5 a.m.) Loudon, September 17. The “Daily Telegraph” say# that momentous issues confront the League at its meetings which open on Saturday. Britain will be represented by a delegation of 70, including. Mr. Eden, Lord Oanborne, Lord Halifax, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. W. S. Morrison. ? Almost every subject on the agenda is controversial. The question of League reform is expected to be referred to a political committee. Over a dozen governments, ineluding France, Russia and New Zealand, have pent in memorandums on the subject. Britain will state her views in the course of discussions, but considers reform at present not practical politics. France has decided to take the initiative in two directions: first, armament limitations, and secondly, improving the disastrous economic situation In Europe. LORD CRANBOURNE LEAVES (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 16. Lord Oranborne, Uuder-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs, left London yesterday for Geneva, where he expects to arrive to-morrow in readiness for the opening of the League Council meeting, at which, in the absence of the Foreign Secretary,' Mr. Anthony Eden, he will lead the British delegation. Mr. Eden .will reach Geneva on Monday in time for the opening of the meeting of the Assembly. He will fly to Paris on Sunday afternoon and proceed by train. Lord Halifax will travel from London to Geneva by rail on Sunday. Other members of the British delegation will leave London on Saturday. ABYSSINIA SENDING DELEGATION Geneva, September 16. Abyssinia is sending a delegation, including Dr. Azaj Martin and'Dr. Gaston Jeze, to the meeting of the League Assembly. A Rome cable dated September 11 stated that it was understood that Signor Mussolini would not press his demand for the exclusion of Abyssinia from the League as an essential to Italy’s representation at Geneva,’ but that Haile Selassie would be quietly urged I not to send a representative to the Assembly. It was believed that there would be a tacit understanding not to raise the Abyssinan question.