BALKAN STATES
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES LEAGUE INTERVENTION FOREIGN SECRETARY’S STATEMENT. (British Official Wireless), Received 11.25 a.m. to-day. RUGBY. July 17.. [n the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary (the Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson) was asked whether he would, in accordance with article XI of the covenant of the League of Nations, use his position as a member of* the council to get a conference of the Balkan nations, with a- view to a settlement of the major outstanding problems between those nations. Mr Henderson replied that regarding the recent tension along the Yugoslav—Bulgarian frontier, lie preferred to assume, for the present, that the two Governments concerned would be able to remove it by direct negotiations without the intervention of the League. Replying to another question, Mr. Henderson said that he was prepared to restore the practice of 1924 and place on the table of the House of Commons all treaties with foreign Governments prior to their ratification.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 July 1929, Page 9
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