-Dr. Sze then welcomed Mr, G. W. Boissevain, local Netherlands Consul-
General, who had agreed to succeed Mr. Aall as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the International Relief Association. Mr. Aall then thanked the speakers and those present for the reception, referred to the Rev; Father Jacquinot's great share in local relief work, and added that his this last official reception in Shanghai will always remain as one of his most cherished memories of China which he sure to miss, A silver pagoda-shaped incense burner inscribed with: "Presented to N. Aall Esq, Consul-General for Norway and Senior Consul, Shanghai, in Commemoration of his excellent services on behalf of Refugee Relief as Chairman of the International Relief Committee, Shanghai, 1937- 1938." and a silk scroll with the Committee badge and Chinese characters signifying "Kindness and Determined Humanity," were presented by the President and acknowledged by Mr. Aall.
They had not perceived that whatever they demanded for themselves as rights they must be prepared to accord to all others.
Mr. de Valera asked the Assembly to keep its faith in the League as the only instrument by which the prevention of war could be achieved.
The results of war, he said, were almost always and inevitably unjust.
He expressed the hope that the nineteenth Assembly might see an end brought to the dangers at present threatening peace and that a beginning would be made towards what he described as a great conference of peace based on justice. A peace conference of that kind he said was possible before but scarcely ever after a war. People of the world wanted it, he concluded.—Wireless through Reuter.
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