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The transfer of the Secretariat to Geneva.

Passports for officials of the League.

The staff of the Secretariat, organization and control.

The obligations of the League under Article 22 of the Covenant (Mandates).

Eupen and Malmédy: Definite transfer of the sovereignty to Belgium.

The inter-migration treaty between Greece and Bulgaria: appointment of two commissioners.

The dispute between Poland and Lithuania.

The constitution of the Free City of Danzig.
Resolution concerning monopolies.

The transfer from the German Government to the French
Government of insurance funds in Alsace-Lorraine.

The liquidation of the property of nations of the former Austro-
Hungarian Monarchy.

The passage of international troops through Switzerland.
The appeal of Albania.

The expulsion of Jewish refugees from Austria.

Appeals to the League from the inhabitants of Eastern Galicia. The position of Luxemburg with regard to her membership in the League.

The protection of children affected by the war.

International bureaus under the League of Nations.
The International Organization of Intellectual Work.
The relief of children in countries affected by the war.

The Commission of Inquiry to the territories of the former
Ottoman Empire.

Measures to secure greater publicity for the work of the Council. The Health Organization.

The work of the committees and conferences appointed or convened by the Council in execution of the resolutions and recommendations of the Assembly.

The International Blockade Commission.

Committee intrusted with the inquiry into the procedure for conciliation.

Upper Silesia, boundary and German-Polish convention.
Neutralization of the Aaland Islands.

Legal status of Eastern Galicia.

Eastern Carelia.

Status of inhabitants of mandated territories.
Protection of non-Polish persons in Vilna.
Choice of a financial adviser for Albania.
Financial reconstruction of Hungary.

Appointment of substitute judges on various mixed tribunals for settlement of mutal claims between former belligerents. Question of expropriation of immovable property in Transylvania.

Refugees in Asia Minor.

Settlement of refugees in Greece.

Dispute between Greece and Italy.

Boundary dispute between Czechoslovakia and Poland (Ja

worzina).

Greek loan for aid of refugees.

Status of Memel.

V. THE SECRETARIAT

"ART. 6. The permanent Secretariat shall be established at the Seat of the League. The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such secretaries and staff as may be required. "All positions under or in connection with the League, including the Secretariat, shall be open equally to men and women.

"Representatives of the Members of the League and officials of the League when engaged on the business of the League shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities.

"The buildings and other property occupied by the League or its officials or by Representatives attending its meetings shall be inviolable.

"The members of the Secretariat act, during their period of office, in an international capacity, and are not in any way representatives of their own country."-Covenant.

As the work of the Secretariat has developed, additional members, additional sections have been added. The main scheme has, however, remained unchanged and the following list of chief divisions as at present constituted serves to visualize the duties and the groupings of a personnel which numbers about 300 persons of 36 different nationalities, both men and women.

Secretary-General

GENERAL ORGANIZATION

Sir Eric Drummond (British).

Under Secretaries-General. J. Avenol (French), Deputy Secretary-General;

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Bernardo D. Attolico (Italian), in charge of internal
administration and Disarmament Section;

Inazo Nitobe (Japanese), Director of International
Bureaus Section.

Paul Joseph Mantoux (French), director.

Pierre Comert (French), director;

Arthur Sweetser (American), assistant director.

Joost A. Van Hamel (Dutch), director.

Sir Herbert Brown Ames (Canadian), director.

SPECIAL ORGANIZATIONS

and Minorities Questions Erik Andreas Colban (Norwegian), director; Huntington Gilchrist (American), member of section.

Economic and Financial

Section Mandates

Sir James Arthur Salter (British), director.
William E. Rappard (Swiss), director.

Transit
Disarmament

Secretariat of military, naval and air subcommissions ..

Opium Traffic

Social Questions .

Health.

Sir James Arthur Salter (British), director.
Bernardo D. Attolico (Italian), director.
M. Madariaga, (Spanish) chief of section.

Capt. F. Monroe (French), military;
Commander E. Jackman (British), naval;
Capt. Ugo Leone (Italian), air.

Dame Rachel Crowdy (British), head of department.

Dame Rachel Crowdy (British), head of department.

Dr. Ludwik Rajchman (Polish), director.

Liaison offices at London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, The Hague and Bukharest.

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Précis-writing Department
and Printing and
Publishing Branch . . .
Précis-writing Department
Editor of the Official
Journal

Printing and Publishing
Branch

Drafting Committee
Library

Verbatim Reporter .

Pool of Shorthand Typists
Registry

INTERNAL SERVICES

P. G. Watterson (British), chief accountant.

Howard R. Huston (American), head of department.

Mme. Rohner-Frosalé (French).

French: G. Demolon, head.
English: Mr. Dennis, head.

H. Vigier, chief of section.

John L. Palmer (British), superintendent.

Dr. G. C. Dixon.

J. P. Ferrier, acting superintendent.
Major A. Buxton (British), secretary.
Miss Florence Wilson (American), librarian.
E. M. Ward (British).

Mlle. Mayras, head of department.

D. A. Leak (British), head of department.

Technical Organizations-Besides the Secretariat there exist the Technical Organizations of the League. These consist of three parts: 1. conferences composed of the representatives of Member and other states, producing treaties for ratification; 2. committees of limited membership, but made up of delegates from Member or other states and of organizations; 3. sections of the Secretariat which serve both the conferences and committees. The committees and Secretariat sections are practically continuous bodies and in their given fields accomplish much work which it would be tedious to recount in detail, but which is recognized by experts to be of great importance.

The technical organizations are "established for the purpose of facilitating the task of the Assembly and the Council by the setting up of technical sections on the one hand and on the other to assist Members of the League, by establishing direct contact between their technical representatives in the various spheres, to fulfil their international duties. With this double object, they must keep enough independence and flexibility to make them effectively useful to the Members of the League, and yet they must remain under the control of the responsible organizations which conduct the general business of the League."

The first Assembly resolution continued by declaring the following principles to guide their work:

a. The interior working of the various organizations should be independent. They will prepare their own agenda, and communicate it to the Council of the League before discussion thereon takes place.

In exceptional cases in which it is necessary to add to the agenda during the progress of a conference of a technical organization, and time does not admit of the communication of the additional item to the Council, any decision arrived at thereon shall be provisional only until the Council has had an opportunity of exercising its control.

b. Their relations with the Members of the League should be under control.

Before any communication of the results or proposals of the technical organizations is made to the Members, and before any action concerning a Member is taken, the Council of the League must be immediately informed in order that they may be able to exercise their power of control, if necessary. . . .

The technical organization may, however, request that the decision taken by the Council shall be discussed at the next meeting of the Assembly.

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