LEAGUE SECRETARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 48, 27 January 1932, Page 7

LEAGUE SECRETARY.

SIR ERIC DRUMMOND’S RESIGNATION.

(British Official Wireless). Received January 27. 8.5 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 25. The members of the League of Nations Council to-day held a private meeting to consider a notification of a desire to resign in 12 months’ time, received from the Secretary-General, Sir Eric Drummond. The resignation was not accepted, and all the members urged Sir Eric to reconsider his decision. Ho promised to give the matter further consideration.

Sir Erie Drummond has been SecrotaryGeneral of the League sinco 1919. Previously he was Private Secrotary to the British Foreign Secretary, and for a time he was a member of the Prime Minister’s staff. “Ho works so quietly that one might think he was operating a well-oiled machine whioh he had found running perfectly, wroto an American biographer recently. “That, 18 his way. Lord Balfour, in his memoirs, called him ‘the perfect private secretary.’ He still is a porfect private secretary. Sir Eric is concerned in whatever happens at the League,, but ho keeps himself slightly in the background. , The result all goes : to the members of the League Council or to the delegatee to the League conferences. By. .force of circumstances his name appears in point with a consistency and regularity known to few, but he is never ‘the story.’ Ho never aire his views for publication, and he never talks about himself.”