ECONOMICS AT GENEVA
NEED FOR GENERAL OVERHAUL.
A reduction of standing charges is indeed overdue, states “The Times” in commenting on proposed economies in the administration of the League of Nations. The resignation of several member-States and the curtailment of so much of its political work have greatly reduced the labours of the Secretariat, and it is time the whole organisation was overhauled. The Sec-retary-General, M. Avenol, evidently intends to do it thoroughly. The nine sections of the headquarters staff are to be reduced to three —not by abolition but by judicious “telescoping.” There will thus be six fewer directors, whose salaries have been in the region of £2OOO each. A few posts will be abolished altogether, and these changes, ' together with regrading and retrenchment, are calculated to bring the total budget down from 32,000,000 Swiss francs to 26,000,000 —which is still well over £1,000,000 sterling at the present rate of exchange.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1939, Page 2
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152ECONOMICS AT GENEVA Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1939, Page 2
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