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However, it was reported that Dr. Stresemann complained of Austrian obstruction at Geneva. Particular dissatisfaction was voiced with Count Mensdorff-Pouilly, the Austrian League representative and Autro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's until the War. He, a distant relative of King George, was accused of being too pro-British and of having refused to accept the German viewpoint in several important issues. Dr. Stresemann plainly wanted to know if it were not possible for Austria and Germany to pull together in the League-no doubt with the idea of pushing the anschluss through, "when...
What the Austrian Chancellor's attitude was to this proposal was not divulged, but an idea of it may be gleaned from the rumor, emanating from official circles, that Count Mensdorff-Pouilly will soon resign and be replaced by a prominent Pan-German, i. e., one who favors the anschluss...
President. The assembled representatives of member nations of the League of Nations elected by a majority of one vote Senor Alberto Guani of Chile, President of the eighth Assembly. Count Albert Dietrichstein Mensdorff-Pouilly of Austria was thus narrowly de- feated. Past Presidents in order of incumbency: Paul Hymans, Belgium, 1920; Herman Adriaan Van Karnebeek, the Netherlands, 1921; Augustine Edwards, Chile, 1922; Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, Cuba, 1923; Giuseppe Motta, Switzerland, 1924; Senator Raoul Dandurand, Canada, 1925; Mont-chilo Nintchitch, Jugoslavia...
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