SAAR PRESIDENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21968, 27 November 1934, Page 10

SAAR PRESIDENT

MR. KNOX'S MODE OF LIFE aLOOF FROM SOCIETY LONDON, Nov. 25 The Saarbrucken correspondent of the Daily Express states that the friends of Mr. G. G. Knox, the Australiian-bora president of the Saar Commission, are :rvmg to persuade him to take a holiday before the. plebiscite on January 13. Mr. Knox completed a busy weekend, in which he drove his own car to Geneva over mountainous roads in six hours, which is three hours faster than the train. He makes no secret of his distaste for the, measures taken for his personal isafety. Nevertheless, he has done everything to make the two Scotland Yard j detectives sent to guard him feel at home. Supplies of tea, bacon and haddock wero brought from England to enable them to take a British breakfast in the presidency. Mr., Knox's mode of life tends to render him secure from attack. He r, never visits a place of public entertainment, ''and rarely leaves the presidency, where he has been known to remain

jfor. two months unbroken. He is a lt>achelor and has remained aloof from isociety since his German hosts greeted Mm at a dinner party with cries of "Heil Hitler."

Five Britons, three Norwegians and Itwo Czecho-Slovakians have been apjpointed • officers of local police during ■the. plebiscite.

A deputation representing the League of . Nations called upon the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon,

;and discussed with him a number of ]points in connection with the forthicoining plebiscite, which appeared to them likely to give rise to difficulty.