Extract from the "News Chronicle".
About the withdrawal of the Japanese troops.
Extract from the "Journal de Genève": further to the Shanghai conference, the armistice condition between China and Japan was the withdrawal of the Japanese troops, S. Lester proposed the Mixed Committee to be responsible to find a solution that would be accepted by both parties concerned.
Extract from the "Irish Press" on the meeting held by the International Labour Conference; E. de Valera's accession to power, he became Prime Minister of the Irish Free State; S. Lester's action to solve the difficulty of the Committee of 19 that dealt with the Sino-Japanese dispute; Ireland's turn to preside the next general meeting of the League of Nations.
Extract from the "Irish Press" on the International Labour Conference and S. Lester's proposal to solve the difficulty of the Committee in the Sino-Japanese dispute.
Resolution, commonly known as the Jouhaux-O'Rahilly resolution, adopted by the International Labour Conference on the economic crisis.
Inauguration of the Academic Society of the Irish Students of the University at Fribourg, Switzerland: S. Lester, Irish delegate to the League of Nations at Geneva, attended this celebration on behalf of the Minister for External Affairs and made a speech; two photographs of the members.
Extract from the "Daily Herald" on J. Simon's defeat in the League of Nations Committee of Nineteen regarding the Sino-Japanese conflict and the question of Japanese evacuation to be completed; S. Lester suggested the League of Nations Assembly had to decide when the moment had come for the Japanese evacuation to be completed.
Extract from the "Journal de Genève" on the Anglo-Irish economic dispute (customs tariffs) and the difficult negotiations regarding its arbitration; the British Press held E. de Valera responsible for the failure of the Anglo-Irish negotiations in this matter.
Extract from the "Irish Press" on the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations to convene a world economic conference: this was the result of a resolution of the Lausanne Conference asking the League of Nations to convene such a conference; S. Lester's point of view on the request addressed to the League of Nations by the Lausanne Conference; the Jouhaux-O'Rahilly resolution of the International Labour Conference proposed the same action; necessity for adequate representation of the small Powers.