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Professor Hudson, who has been a member of the legal section of the secretariat of the Lague of Nations since 1919, outlined some of the accomplishments of the first five years of the League. "Disputes between Sweden and Finland, Poland and Lithuania, Poland and Germany, Jugo Slavia and Albania, and Italy and Greece have all been satisfactorily settled," he declared, "and war, which threatened in each case, has been averted. I have never seen a time so intense, a time so difficult to resist hysteria, as when the Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard...
...Secretariat was instructed to collect suggestions for extending the principles of the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference...
Child Welfare. Article 24 of the Covenant, pledging the League to Child Welfare work, was invoked by putting under the Secretariat the work of the International Bureau for the Preservation of Child Welfare at Brussels...
Bishop Brent described the persennel of the Secretariat of the League and told of his own experiences as a member of one of the committees of the Assembly. He explained the workings of the Covenant saying that the "League is not a super-state, but a servant trying to benefit humanity. It is not living up to the Covenant, and I am glad of that. It does not resort to force. After all public opinion is the power behind the League...
Wilson. Sir Eric Drummond, General Secretary of the League of Nations, at Geneva, issued on behalf of the Secretariat a statement in which he eulogized the late Woodrow Wilson and referred in glowing terms to the part he played for the League. "Mr. Wilson has gone," he concluded, "but the work to which he gave his life has only just begun." Lord Cecil, representing Britain, added: "Former President Wilson is dead, but we shall ever hear...