Geneva, Sept. 4. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, and M, Briand, the French Foreign Secretary, telegraphed to the Spanish Premier, General Prime de Rivera, today urging Spain's presence at the meeting of the Council.
General de Rivera replied as follows: "In my modesty I never expected such an honour as that Your Excel-lendes' telegram constitutes, My personal inclination would lead me to agree immediately if it vere not my duty to watch the prestige of my well-beloved Spain, which has been relegated to a position Motto opened to-day's Assembly of the League of Nations, He appealed for a spirit of conciliation in order to dispel the last clouds on the political horizon. He urged that the full report of the committee on the composition of the Council, including the admission of Germany should be immediately dis. cussed without being referred to a committee and that the resolution should be adopted as a single project for the adoption of the report, was necessary to solve the crisis' even if several members had. to] sacrifice their opinions, 'M, Motto said that the portion of the resolution dealing with the re-eligibility of members of the Council should be first referred to 8 commission, which would Inter make proposals on the subject.
Jonkheer London (Holland) allude' ed to the objection raised to an increase in the number of non-permanent seats on te Council as calculated to hinder the rapid we ing of the Council, but said that in view of present circumstances Holland supported the proposals to increase the number of seats (Cheers).
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