London, Sept. 13. Eamon de Valera, the Prime Minister of Eire, was elected president of the Nineteenth Assembly'of the League of Nations Geneva yesterday by 39-votes out of 47. The session opened inder the Presidency of the Chairman of the League Council, W.
Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, who n his speech recalled that success of the League depended on the wisdom and determination of the Governments composing it, and hat it had no independent existence or capacity for action apart rom what its member Governments willed, In his Presidential address the Premier of Eire deplored the present weakness of the League, which he attributed to the failure jartial pooling of sovereignty. "They had not perceived that what-ver they demanded for themselves rights, they must be prepared to cord to all others.
Mr. de Valera asked the Assembly keep its (ith in the League as he only instrument by which the revention of war could be achieved. "The results of war, he said, were most always and inevitably. unjust.
He expressed the hope that the nineteenth Assembly might see an ind Brought to the dangers at. pres-ut threatening peace and that a beginning would "be made towards what he described as a great confer-nee of peace based on justice. A ace conference of that kind he said vas possible before but scarcely ever tera war, People of the world ranted It, he concluded—Wireless hrough Reuter,
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