OIL DISPUTE.
REFERRED TO THE LEAGUE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec 14. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain R. A. Eden, stated, in the House ol : Commons in reference to the cancellation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Corporation concession, that in view of the intimation contained in the reply of the Persian Government that it contemplated an appeal to. the Council of the League of IS aliens which would entitie the Persian Government to require suspension of any proceedings instituted before the Permanent Court of International Justice, the British Government had decided not to pursue its demand for reference of the case to the Permanent Court, but instead to refer the matter to the Council of the League of Nations under Article 15 of the Covenant. A telegram had accordingly been dispatched to the Secretary-General of the League submitting the matter to the Council. A Geneva message states that the subject has been placed on the agenda of the present session of the Council, and is to be dealt with next week.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 9
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171OIL DISPUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 9
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