LEAGUE OFFICIAL DISMISSED
“MakingGenevaSafe For Fascism” DICTATORS’ TERMS FOR RETURN PURGE OF ANTI-FASCISTS UNDER WAY? (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 28, 8.10 p.m.) » LONDON, October 28. The news that the Secretary-General of the League of Nations (M. Joseph Avenol) had dismissed his chief-of-staff, M. Marcel Hoden, who is strongly anti-fascist, astonished League circles, where it is regarded as a direct consequence of the Munich Agreement and the first step in a movement to make the League safe for' fascism, says the Geneva correspondent of The Manchester Guardian.
It has been known for a long time that the totalitarian Powers have demanded, as the price of their return to Geneva, a purge by the League of the Secretariat. The purge has evidently begun, and other anti-fascist officials are expected to follow M. Hoden to retirement.
M. Avenol had become an avowed supporter of Mr Neville Chamberlain’s policy, and reform of the League in the sense demanded by Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, was causing a profound divergence between him and M. Hoden, who had had a permanent League contract. M. Avenol was therefore obliged to abolish the post to get rid of him. r ;
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Southland Times, Issue 23652, 29 October 1938, Page 7
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