LEAGUE COUNCIL
OPENING MEETING THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. (United Press Association —By Electric Tel eg rap h—Copy right;. (Received this day at 1.30 p. 111.) GENEVA, September 13. Although to-day’s proceedings were only formal, the lobbies and press galleries were exceptionally animated. Seiior Juan . Negrin the Prime Minister of Spain, in opening the Assembly, declared in a presidential address that although Spain was a matter of the gravest international concern, he was not speaking of it except to say that Spain preserved her faith in the League’s ideals, which had not dimmed The world was living in a strange period in which the moral sense of national retrogressed treaties were no longer respected, and signatures were binding only as far as the signatory. He himself wished that If the League were destroyed, this generation could not rebuild it. The Assembly adjourned to await n report of tin* Credentials Committee.
SPANISH PREMIER
DENOUNCED AS A “BANDIT.”
(Received this day- at 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, September 13
All tin* League delegates have received a pamphlet couched in violent and abusive language, referring to Senor Negrli as a “bandit,” and signed b.v a group of patriots. As a result the precincts of the Assembly are being closely guarded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1937, Page 5
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