LEAGUE'S WORK
TECHNICAL & POLITICAL
SEPARATION MOVE
MEETING AT HAGUE
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received February 9, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, February 8.
The non-political conference of the League of Nations which held its first meeting yesterday at The Hague elected Dr. Colijn as president.
The ten States represented are meeting for the purpose of exploring the possibilities and merits of ultimately separating the technical from the political activities of the League, and are only the nucleus of the organisation which it is hoped to create.
"The Times" says: "It has been repeatedly shown that political prejudice rather than technical disagreement has been an obstacle to the acceptance of the Secretariat's plans. The more clearly, therefore, it may now be possible to separate its technical from its political work, the more likely is it that effective results will be obtained and that non-member States will collaborate."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 7
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