DISARMAMENT
GENEVA CONFERENCE
POSITION OF CHAIRMAN
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(Eeceived Bth December, 1.30-p.m.)
LONDON, 7th'December..
In the House of Commons, Sir Joha Simon, Foreign Secretary,' in " answer to a question, said that' it was not within the Government's province to propose a new chairman for the Geneva Disarmament Conference :iu-.-: place of Mr, Arthur Henderson. ■ ..-.-, "■; ■ • Sir W. 11. Davison: "Has 'not Mr. Henderson offered to resign seeing -that he does not represent the general sense of the House of Commons?"; .' ;';'
Sir ; John : Simon: : "The. choice was not that of the House, of Commons, but of the League Council, which unanimously selected Mr. Henderson." ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1931, Page 8
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