A pointed reference to present conditions in Germany which gave vent to much lobby speculation as to whether it would lead to further discussion of the question, was made today by Premier Johan Ludwig Nowinckel of Norway, in opening the fourteenth assembly of the League of Nations.
Speaking pessimistically of the present state of affairs in Europe, the acting president of the assembly termed the words equality and fraternity as “relics of bygone days. Even the most sacred rights of liberty of thought and personal liberty are not everywhere secure,” he declared.
His speech aroused much comment in the lobbies with the belief prevalent that it would lead succeeding speakers to take up the Nazi persecutions in a bolder and more direct manner in the general discussion. No official pronouncement that the persecutions, and specifically, the treatment of the Jews in the Reich, would be considered by the Assembly has yet been made.
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