Arbitration, Security and Disarmament up Again Geneva, Sept. 7.
'A festive appearance characterizes the city on the occasion of the opening of the Sixth Assembly of the League of Nation: The hotels of offence. He declared that Britain held that this principle seemed to have been lost sights of when framing last year's Protocol.
Mr. Chamberlain was pale and evidently moved by the applause. and greeting of the peroration in which he said that if by_attenipting less than the last year's Assem-Uy did as regards the Protocol they eventually achieved more, they were acting in the same spirit as the framers of the original covenant. are crowded and the Aags of all) fe do not seck fresh alliances nations are fluttering in the bril-directed against anyone. Our sole Trains are arriv-desire is peace of the world and we ing packed with delegates and sight-hope that our work in this connex-tombly Hall are thronged, The approaches to the As. ion will meet with the sympathy and support of the Leagu galleries themselves are packed.
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The words hope, venture and persevere should hover over the proceedings of the Assembly as an invisible spirit, inspiring confidence, The Canadian Senator, Mr. Raoul Dardurand, has been elected President of the Assembly of the Lengue ions.
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