UNEXPECTED AT GENEVA AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 9

UNEXPECTED AT GENEVA AGAIN

LEAGUE ASSEMBLY ELECTION OF PRESIDENT Cab/e. —Press Association.—Copyright GENEVA, Monday. The eighth Assembly of the League Nations was opened to-day. The agenda is of small interest compared last year, when Germany wtis admitted a member of the League. There also a feeling that the failure of die Arms Limitation Conference was J ae nous set-bac k and a sense of fc-avy personal loss caused by the absence of Visco mt Cecil and M. De J >uvenal. However, the League lived up to its for always doing the une*Pected, in the comparatively small fatter of the election of the President or the year. Lobbyists had said the new President was sure to be the Ausjnau, Count von Mensdorff, one of the leaders of the old Hapsburg resale who have adapted themselves to Post-war conditions. These expectations were not realised ’R never had the voting been so I!! 0 ??' 47 votes cost Senor Guani, 1 had 24, Count von Mens- ? or ? 21, and two other candidates 1 each. ARMS ISSUE TO COME UP The election of Senor Guani was striking success for Sir Austen and demonstrates the nuence of the Great Powers in the -ague. The n?w President acted as Ppor.eur in the dispute over Mosul, he has beet , a hard-” orking supp,, r°* t * le League. V -*en Senor J'lam was excluded from the Council nr J ear Sir Austen promised to supr t his candidature at the next elecPresidency. of k V * nK begun with this falsification * prophets the Assembly has, it rumoured, other “fireworks” in [ore. ig a u ege( j that the German creigu Minister, Herr Stresemann, is daw ine( * that there shall be a full bate ou disarmament, for which M. ‘acour (France) is said to be prey ,Pln * one of his burses of oratory.— aad N.z. __