Report of the Delegates of India to the Nineteenth (Ordinary) Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations (1938)

The General Committee of the Assembly. the function of which is to assist the President in the general direction of the work of the Assembly in the constitution of Committees in deciding on the communications to be made to the Assembly in the framing of the agenda for each meeting and so on was thus composed of the President the eight delegates elected as VicPresidents the Chairmen of t [...] The First Committee had before it a proposal of the Gov-.ernment of the United Kingdom that Rule 1 paragraph 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly which fixes the opening. date of the annual session of the Assembly be amended so as to provide for the opening the Assembly on the Monday falling between September 14th and 20th. [...] The Committee expressed its gratitude to the Institute for having undertaken the study of the -legal status of women at the suggestion of the last Assembly on the proposal of the First Committee. [...] The First Committee's advice was sought by the Fourth 'Committee as to whether the letter addressed to the SecretarGeneral by the German Government on the 18th March 1938 announcing the incorporation of Austria in the German Reich and the termination of Austria's membership of the League of Nations; -constituted a notice of the withdrawal of Austria from the League. [...] The Third Committee reviewed the action taken on the - Assembly resolution of September 30th 1937 which recommended the conclusion of a convention on the publicity of national defence - expenditure and the examination by Members of the League of the possibility of adopting internal measures for the effective supervision of the manufacture of and trade in arms.