The Archive · 1924

Geneva, Des. 15

'The Secretariat of the {League of Nations to-day issued the text of a letter' from the British Foreign Office of November 27, in connexion with the registration of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December, 1921, at the request of the Government of the Free State.

The letter reiterates that the!

Government has consistently held that neither the Covenant nor any' conventions concluded under the! auspices of the League are intended govern inter-Empire relations and, therefore, they consider that /Article- XVIII of the'Covenant does not apply.to the document. under

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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