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Prof. Albert Einstein: " I resigned as a member of the League of Na- tions Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. In a letter to the Secretariat I said that I thought the League lacked both the strength and the good-will to accomplish its task, and, as a pacifist, it was necessary for me to resign...
...League Secretariat, which is the Civil Service of the League, is one of the hardest-working business bodies in the world. Unlike the Council and the Assembly it is continuous, and transacts practical business every day of the year. It consists of 350 highly paid experts and their secretaries and clerks, chosen by examination, from every important nation in the world, except Germany and Russia...
...this meeting, the Secretariat will be glad to consider the application of any student wishing to sit for a state not yet represented...
Immediately following the presentation of each question, the Assembly will debate and act upon the subject under discussion. After the Assembly has adjourned, a member of the Secretariat will take the chair to permit informal discussion by the audience of the questions considered by the Assembly...
...almost complete agreement reached among themselves by the members of the Committees on Investigation, it has been decided by the Secretariat to do away with the 48 hour adjournment originally planned upon, and to hold the entire debate on both questions this evening. The questions will be taken up and discussed singly, about an hour being allowed for each...