CRISIS IN LEAGUE CIRCLES
Fascist Influence at Geneva
Important Official Dismissed Has The Secretariat Gone Fascist? United Press Association—By s-eruic Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 28, 8.0 p.m.) LONDON, October 28. “The news that M. Avenol (Secretary to the League of Nations) 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 the 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 demanded, as the price of their return to Geneva a "purge” by the League secretariat. The purge has evidently begun, and other anti-Fascist officials are expected to follow Mr Hoden, to retirement.
M. Avenol has become an avowed supporter of Mr Chamberlain's policy and League reform in the sense demanded by Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini was causing profound divergence between him and Mr Hoden who had a permanent League contract. M. Avenol was therefore obliged to abolish the post and get rid of him.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21180, 29 October 1938, Page 17
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187CRISIS IN LEAGUE CIRCLES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21180, 29 October 1938, Page 17
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