News of the Week
ON Thursday, September 15th, the Assembly of the League of Nations elected three non-permanent members of the Council in the place of Belgium, Czecho- Slovakia and Salvador, who retired by rotation. The disappearance of M. Benes will be particularly regretted. The other non-permanent members are Poland, Rumania, Chile, Holland, Columbia . and China. Belgium had hoped to stand again for re-election, but wider the rule passed last year retiring members are bound to get leave to stand by a preliminary vote of the Assembly. This was not granted. Belgium is certainly disappointed, but M. Vandervelde accepted the vote in the right spirit. He recognized that it was an assertion that the League intended this rotation to be a genuine sharing of member- Ship of the Council. He himself is a great lois to the Council.
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