LEAGUE OF NATIONS
New President of Assembly
M. SANDLER, SWEDEN
Disarmament Question Deferred
(British Official Wireless.) Received U, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 10.
M. Sandler, Sweden, was elected President of the League of Nations Assembly by 49 votes to three.
Sir John Simon, who is head of the British delegation to the League of Nations Assembly, is one of 23 Foreign Ministers of various countries taking part in the meeting. The Canadian Primo Minister, the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, was elected President of the League Assembly’s Economic Commission.
Owing to the lack of progress in.disarmament, M. Sandler proposed postponement until the next Assembly of 'the convocation of the committee to harmonise the Kellogg Pact for outlawing war and the League Covenant. This was approved. In his presidential address, Dr. Benes referred to the decisive importance of the efforts to conclude a pact of mutual assistance for Eastern Europe. ADMISSION OF RUSSIA Permanent Council Seat (Received 11, 11.30 a.m. ) GENEVA, Sept. 10. Tlie Council of the League of Nations, at a. private meeting, unanimously agreed to the Soviet having a permanent seat on the Council. Argentine and Portugal abstained from voting.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 5
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