SPEECH ALTERED.
MR JORDAN AT GENEVA. ACTION BY MR EDEN. GENEVA, May 29. All Geneva is discussing a strange scene at the League of Nations involving the British .Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr Anthony Eden) and the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London (Mr W. J. Jordan). The latter is reported to have intended to invoke Article 10 of the Covenant regarding Spain. While Mr Eden’s speech was being translated into French, Mr Eden walked to Mr Jordan and began pointing a pencil to certain passages in Mr Jordan’s speech. Finally several members of the British delegation surrounded them and Mr Jordan was seen making alterations. Mr Jordan thep rose to speak and made an innocuous plea in favour of moves to secure a cessation of hostilities in Spain. Mr Jordan and other members of the New Zealand delegation declined to discuss the incident.
Article 10 of the League Covenant runs as follows: “The members of the League undertake to respect and preserve. as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence .of, all members to the League.. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression, the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.’’
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 7
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214SPEECH ALTERED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 7
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