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Document · 1932.09.01
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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.

Document · 1932.09.02
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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.

Document · 1932.09.24
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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.

Document · 1932.12.20
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Extract from the "Irish Times" on the dispute between the Governments of the United Kingdom and Persia regarding the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Teheran Government's assurance of not taking measures against the oilfields worked by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Great Britain's claim that the confiscation of the concession was contrary to international law; as Acting President of the League of Nations Council in the place of E. de Valera, S. Lester sent a telegram to both Governments to try to fairly settle the dispute.