LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ANOTHER 150 OFFICIALS DISMISSED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright GENEVA. December 21. Officials numbering 150 of the League Secretariat have been dismissed, making those dismissed during the war 220. The Secretary-General of the League of Nations. M Jules Avenol, at a meeting of the budgetary committee on December 6. said: -‘Further economies are hardly possible. The time has come to decide whether the maintenance of international institutions is desired." M Avenol explained that the reduction of one-third in the 1940 budget was as great as was possible without destroying the League. He implied that if Russia were expelled a further 10 percent reduction would follow, because Russia contributes 10 per cent of the League’s finances. The Soviet Union was expelled on December 14,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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