LEAGUE SECRETARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 January 1932, Page 6

LEAGUE SECRETARY

RESIGNATION NOT ACCEPTED. EUGBY, Monday. The members of the League of Nations Council held a private meeting to consider a notification of a desire to resign in 12 months’ time received from the Secretary-General, Sir Eric Drummond. The resignation was not accepted, and all members urged Sir Eric to reconsider his decision. He promised to give the matter further consideration. —(British Official Wireless).

(Sir Eric Drummond has been Sccr-tary-General of the League since 1919. Previously ho was Private Secretary to the British Foreign Secretary, and, for a time he was a member of the Prime Minister’s staff. “He works so quietly that one might think he was operating a well-oiled machine which lie had found running perfectly',” wrote an American biographer recently'. “That is his way. Lord Balfour, in his memoirs, called him 'the perfect private secretary.’ He still is a perfect private secretary. Sir Eric is concerned in whatever happens at the League, but he keeps himself slightly' in the background. The result all goes to the members of the League Council or to the delegates to the League conferences. By' force of circumstances his name appears in point with a consistency and regularity known to few, but lie is never ‘the story.’ He never airs his views for publication, and he never talks about himself.”