SOVIET’S GRIEVANCE
TREATMENT OF DELEGATES. PROTEST TO THE POWERS. RIGA, January 15. The Soviet charges Dr Laudon, chairman of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission of the League of Nations, with bias against it and has instructed its ambassadors in the capitals of the leading Powers to enter a protest. The Soviet demands that the chairman of tlie commission shall not be the representative of any State which has not established normal relations with all other States which are to take part in the forthcoming meeting of the Council of the League to discuss the date of the Disarmament Conference. The Soviet further demands that the chairman shall not represent a Sate engaged in the manufacture of armaments. Finally, the Soviet Complains of the “ atmosphere of hostility toward the Soviet delegates created in the newspapers of Geneva by Russian emigres resident in Switzerland.” Dr Landon represents Holland at Geneva.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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