LEAGUE RESOLUTIONS.
SPAIN AND CHINA. Received January 21, 1.10 p.m. GENEVA, Jan. 20. The closing session of the League Council to-day adopted the resolutions brought forward earlier respecting Spain and China. The first declared that the commission’s investigations of the bombings in Republican Spain showed that certain cases of air attacks had been directed, either intentionally or negligently, against the civilian populations and condemned those methods as contrary to the conscience of mankind and international law. The second resolution detailed the resolutions already adopted regarding the co-ordination of assistance for China, and reaffirmed the _ League’s moral support and the avoidance of any action which would weaken China’s powers of resistance. Mr W. J- Jordan (New Zealand), in a brief declaration, deplored the cruelty of aerial bombardments. Dr." Wellington Koo (China), in. a statement, said that the resolution was unsatisfactory to the Chinese Government.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 10
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