THE DANZIG ELECTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 7

THE DANZIG ELECTION.

ASSURANCE TO LEAGUE

RESPECT FOR CONSTITUTION

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 24

The Council of the League of Nations held a short session this afternoon to hear the British member, Mr R. A. Eden, as rapporteur on a petition presented by different organisations regarding the Danzig election. Mr Eden requested that the Council invite the President of the Danzig Senate to give formal assurances as to the measures he proposed to take to prevent a recurrence of the incidents and to remedy the state of affairs revealed by the petition. He expressed full approval of the work of the League Commissioner (Mr Sean Lester). The Council decided to ask for strict observance in future of the principles of the Constitution of the Free City of Danzig and of the guarantees given to minorities.

M. Laval fully supported Mr Eden’s report, and emphasised the fact that the Danzig Constitution had been placed under the guarantee of the League and must be respected. The President of the Danzig Senate was summoned to the Council table, and declared that the Constitution of the city would be respected. Before adjourning, the Council held a private meeting.-