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DISCUSSION AT GENEVA THE FREE STATE’S VIEWS (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, September 13. Speaking in the Assembly on the question of Russia’s entry to the League nt Nations, Mr do Valera said the country he represented was far from the ideas of Soviet Russia, but he would support its entry on account of its importance. The day had gone by when an enlightened Government could continue the persecution or the denial of religious freedom.
Newspapers, commenting on this speech, point out that owing to the wording of the Covenant a unanimous and not merely a two-thirds majority in the Assembly' would be required if the procedure advocated by Sir de Valera was adopted. The attitude of the United Kingdom delegation at Geneva is summed up in a sentence —that the quickest way is the best, and that as the present procedure seemed best calculated to hasten the introduction of Russia to the League, criticism at this stage was to be deprecated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 13
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