4 NOVEMBER 1932, Page 6

I have heard nothing but condemnation of the way the

Great Powers fought at the League Assembly last month for the retention of the post of Under-Secretary-General, in order that each of them might be represented in the • higher ranges of the Secretariat, and Germany seems to have emerged from the melee with as little credit as anyone. That being so, the announcement that Dr. Trendelenburg has been appointed as -the German-Under- -Secretary-General—no doubt with the concurrence, to put it at the lowest, of- the German Government—is a good deal more satisfactory than it might- have been. Herr Trendelenburg, who was the chief economic adviser of successive German Governments, first came to the fore at the World Economic Conference in 1927, and since then he has identified himself continuously, as German delegate, with the League's financial and economic work. He will now have general supervision over the section of the League Secretariat concerned with these questions (formerly directed by Sir -Arthur Salter).

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