SIR ERIC DRUMMOND
LAST LEAGUE MEETING, TRIBUTES TO SERVICES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, .Tune 0. •Sir Eric Drummond, the retiring Secretary-General of the League of Nations sat with the Council for the last time in that capacity 'today and members paid warm tributes to his services. He does not officially leave the League until duly. Ho is being succeeded by Monsieur Avenal.
■Sir Eric was appointed the first retary-General of the League at the .1010 Paris Peace Conference and since then, has built up an international civil service in the League Secretariat, where practically all nationalities are represented and which works smoothly and, efficiently.
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Northern Advocate, 7 June 1933, Page 5
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