Spain an Absentee: Non-Ratification of 1925 Convention by by Some Powers an Impediment:
Child Welfare and Juvenile Courts Geneva, Sept. 2.
The forty-first session of the Coancit of the League of Nations] opened here to-day.
Spain was not represented.
The report of the Council reorg ganization committee will not be ready until the end of the week.
The public sitting of the Coun lasted barely half an hour and dis posed of secondary matters, such as the report on the opium traffic and other dangerous drugs.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the! British Foreign Secretary, pointed out that the work has been seriously, impeded by the non-ratification of] the Convention of 1925 by some the members of the Council. should be made to ce-ordinate the action of various bodies in this matter.
Surprise was expressed in the Lobbies at the absence of Spain, [since she has not communicated her thdrawal as Brazil did in June
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