Need for assistance to Geneva, problems of staff, accommodation and allowances.
Draft Agenda of the Council on the execution of public works, the Chinese Government's appeal against Japan, acceptance by the Liberian Government of the League of Nations scheme, mandatory regime in Iraq, Slavery Committee, Economic Committee's report, list of experts for the settlement of economic disputes, Finance Committee, World Economic and Financial Conference, minority petitions, successor to E. Drummond, and Bolivia-Paraguay dispute.
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.
These papers consisted mainly of the original treaty between Germany and Ireland obtained by Roger Casement.
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.
Tribute to J.E. Drummond, retiring Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
Letter from Frank Walters to S. Lester dated 27 September 1932; letter (not signed) addressed to S. Lester dated 28 September 1932 enclosing the first draft of the circular letter to all the members of the League of Nations regarding Drummond's resignation and appreciation of his qualities.
E. Drummond thanked E. de Valera for the letter he addressed to the Members of the League of Nations in regard to his resignation as Secretary-General, letter in which E. de Valera congratulated E. Drummond upon the part he played within the League of Nations.