LEAGUE OF NATIONS
DIVISION OF ACTIVITY TECHNICAL AND POLITICAL THE HAGUE CONFERENCE (Official Wireless) (Received Feb. 9. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY. Feb. 8 The non-political conference of the League of Nations which held its first meeting yesterday at The Hague, elected Dr. Colijn as president. The ten States represented are meeting tor the purpose of exploring the possibilities and merits ultimately separating the technical from the political activities of the League, and are only the nucleus of an organisation which it is hoped to create. The Times says: “It has repeatedly been shown that political prejudice rather than technical disagreement has been an obstacle to the acceptance of the secretariat’s plans. The more clearly', therefore, it may now be possible to separate its technical from its political work for the more likely is it that effective results will be obtained and that non-member States will collaborate.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21034, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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