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...Coconut." The official version of how this debacle came about is almost as grotesque as the comment made upon it by the Berlin Tageblatt: "From the jungles of Brazil a coconut has been hurled half around the world at the Glass House of the League...
...word, the representative of Brazil on the Council of the League, Senhor Afranio Mello Franco, announced last week that his government had "irrevocably and finally" instructed him to vote against the admission of Germany to a permanent seat on the League Council unless Brazil is given now a similar permanent seat instead of the non- permanent seat to which she was elected for a year (TIME, Oct. 5) together with Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay...
Since the Council can act only by unanimous vote, it was rendered powerless to admit Germany without Brazil. The Spanish representative, Count Quinones de Leon, intimated that he was instructed to make a similar demand on the part of Spain. Before this obstinate blockade the Great Powers halted...
Tuesday. Although no French Ministry had yet been assembled, Senor Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Senhor Mello Franco (Brazil) issued implied threats that as nonpermanent Council members they would vote against admitting Germany to a permanent seat unless their nations were at once permanently seated...
Argentina Haiti Bolivia Honduras *Brazil Mexico Chile Nicaragua Colombia Panama Costa Rica Paraguay Cuba Peru Dominican Rep. Salvador Ecuador Uruguay Guatemala **Venezuela...