Geneva, Dec, 14.
REPORT and resolution advising the exclusion of Soviet Russia from the League of Nations was adopted unanimously by the League Assembly today. Nine delegates out of forty abstained from casting their ballot.
They were the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Chinese, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Mexican, and Swiss representatives.
Following the vote, M. Rudolf Holsti, the Finnish delegate, thanked all the members on behalf of his country. Shortly after the meeting opened, the report submitted by the Special Committee entrusted with the examination of Finland's appeal was read by the chairman, Senhor Da Motto, of Portugal, who declared that his Government associated itself with the Argentine proposal to exclude Soviet Russia from the League.
"Russia placed herself outside the Covenant and.she must be sent out of the League of Nations," he said.
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