The Aga Khan who had an Irish Estate, and was "persona grata" with the British Government, proposed the acceptance by the Saorstat of a Commonwealth chairman on the condition that he would be chosen and of a Commonwealth statesman.
Controversy between the Irish Free State and Great Britain on the payment of land annuities, Ireland offered to submit this economic dispute to the League of Nations' arbitration, the British Government accepted the principle of arbitration, but the problem was in the choice of the chairman, S. Lester suggested to Deputy Little to speak of the economic crisis in general and to insist mainly on the League of Nations' principles such as international peace based on justice and the equality of all States, and the fact that no great State could ignore the rights of the small States; Ireland was a firm supporter of the League of Nations' ideals, but would never have accepted the position of inferiority vis-à-vis the other nations of the world.
On the leftside of the envelope is a handwritten note, which was an extract from "Le Démocrate" on Ireland's vote regarding a motion on disarmament, and President Henderson's declaration, as well as on the Irish Free State's position to the British Empire further to President Henderson's declaration.
Important votes on various Russian, Chinese, Swedish-Dutch amendments and motions on reduction in land, naval and all other armaments, on air attack against the civilian population to be prohibited, on the limitation of the number and calibre of mobile land artillery.
Report prepared by a sub-committee on maternal welfare and the hygiene of infants; Minutes of the 18th Session of the Health Committee on collaboration of Liberia, anti-epidemic work in China, biological standardisation, immunisation against scarlet fever and diphteria, dangerous drugs, rural hygiene, maternal welfare, etc.; the Irish Free State was not represented on the Health Committee, composed of men eminent in the medical profession; Irish Catholic position on contraception.
About the Disarmament Conference adjournment; the limited Irish contribution; the principle of equality requested by the German Delegate; the British and French discussion on the principle of equality; Edouard Herriot's speech; Henderson's and S. Lester's views; S. Lester's vote in favour of the resolution but only in the sense of the declaration of President Henderson.
Extract from "Le Démocrate" of 24 July 1932: Irish vote in the Disarmament Conference, and Irish Free State's position to the British Empire further to President Henderson's declaration.
About an article from William Martin on the Anglo-Irish dispute, W. Martin was one of the best informed journalists in Europe.
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 "Tribune de Genève" on the economic conflict between Great-Britain and the Irish Free State: tariff walls dispute; land-annuities dispute to be paid by the Irish Free State (decision taken under the Irish government of Cosgrave, but refused by E. de Valera); question of the arbitration in the land-annuities dispute; British arbitration refused by E. de Valera; heavy consequences for the Irish Free State.