The Archive · 1938

League Made "Registry Office of Failures"

Bitter Attack Made on Great Democracies Geneva, Sept. 19.

An extremely bitter attack against the great democracies "who deserted their duties and turned the League of Nations into a mere office registering their successive failures" was delivered in a speech at the meeting of the Assembly today by Sr. Hullo Alvarez del Vayo, the Spanish Republican Foreign Minister.

Recalling the plight of Spain during the past two years, Sr. Del Vayo said that the tactics employed by the Great Powers in the face of aggression were responsible for the sufferings of China, the disappearance of Austria, and the new attempts at aggression against Czechoslovakia.

"The League of Nations must put an end to the methods which provoked her utter weakness," he declared in conclusion.—Havas.

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