LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 268, 12 October 1932, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

PLEAS FOR ECONOMY. BRITISH DELEGATES’ EFFORTS. REPORT TO BE SUBMITTED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 12, 10.45 a.m. GENEVA, Oct. 11. The Budget Committee at the instigation of Mr W. M. Hughes referred the Budget back to the Supervisory Committee with instructions to effect economies.

Despite pleas by Sir E. Hilton Young, Sir Thomas Wilford and Sir Eric Hambro to imemdiately abolish the League’s offices in London., Paris, Berlin and Rome, the committee decided that the Supervisory Committee report thereon in 1933. WOMEN’S CLAIM. REJECTED AT GENEVA. LONDON, Oct. 10. The Geneva correspondent of the News-Chronicle says that the representatives of 45,000,000 women throughout the world, who had battled for two years to obtain equality of national rights with men, were defeated by the Judicial Committee of the League of Nations, which by 23 votes to 4, with two abstentions, rejected the demand for revision of Articles 8 to 11 of The Hague Nationality Conference in order to confer such rights. The object of the women’s efforts was to retain their nationality by birth if so desired.