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.
Extract from the "Journal de Genève" on the Anglo-Irish economic dispute: tariff walls dispute, and question of the arbitration in the land-annuities dispute to be paid by the Irish Free State: will the arbitration be a British one or an international one since the States in conflict were both members of the League of Nations?
Extract from the "Irish Times" on the appointment of E. de Valera, President of the Free State Executive Council, to preside over the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, opening at Geneva on 23 September; will E. de Valera, in his opening speech, refer to the Anglo-Irish economic dispute?; photograph of E. de Valera.
Extract from the "Irish Times": report from the Mar Shimun, hereditary Patriarch of the Assyrians, to the League of Nations to denounce his own deportation to Cyprus and the grievances of his people betrayed by the League of Nations, that gave their old lands and homes to Turkey and handed them over to an Arab Government; secret meeting, in Paris, of the League of Nations Minorities' Committee of Three (one of whom was S. Lester) to deal with the Assyrian question.
Press caricatures on the lunch of the International Association of accredited journalists to the League of Nations on the occasion of the XIII Assembly.
Photograph from the "Daily Herald", representing E. de Valera at Geneva, where he attended the session of the League of Nations Council; in the event of E. de Valera would not have been able to attend the session of the League of Nations Council at Geneva, one of his Ministers or S. Lester, the Free State's representative at Geneva, would have taken his place.
Extract from the "Journal de Genève" on the Manchurian conflict.
Article on the Chaco dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia, S. Lester was the Chairman of the League of Nations Council on the Chaco dispute, proposals made by the Committee of Neutrals and S. Lester to try to settle the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute.
Anglo-Persian dispute regarding the cancellation of the concession owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.