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subsequently the Third Committee was set up on the proposal of the delegations of Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Subsequently a motion, also emanating from these delegations, was accepted by the Assembly under which there was referred to the Third Committee for examination :— (1) That part of the report on the work of the League of Nations during the year 1935-1936 which deals with the question of the reduction and limitation of armaments ; (2) The statements made on the same subject during the general discussion, and particularly those concerning the resumption of the work of international disarmament. (Documents A. 47 and A. 50.) The Assembly also appointed an Agenda Committee to examine and make proposals on any new questions brought before the Assembly. The items on the Agenda were apportioned as follows : — Committee No. 1. —Constitutional and Legal Questions — Item 4 (a) : Permanent Court of International Justice. (a) Participation of States not members of the League in the election of members of the Court. Item 5 : Rules of Procedure of the Assembly— (a) Maintenance of the rule relating to the convocation of the Finance (Fourth) Committee of the Assembly. (b) Proposed amendments regarding the composition of the General Committee, the insertion of a provision regarding the Agenda Committee and the creation of a Nominations Committee. Item 10 : Composition of the Council. Item 13 : International Repression of Terrorism. Item 27 : Convention on Nationality concluded on 26th December, 1933, at the Seventh International Conference of American States. Committee No. 2. —Work of the Technical Organizations of the League— Item 7 : Committees of the League of Nations. Item 12 : Nutrition. Item 20 : Economic and Financial Work. Item 21 : Communications and Transit. Item 22 : Health Work. Committee No. 4.—Organization of the Secretariat and Finances of the League— Item 6 (c) : Supervisory Commission. (Appointment of two members of the Commission.) Item 6 (d) : Administrative Board of the Staff Pensions Fund. (Appointment of three members and three substitute members of the Administrative Board.) Item 14 : Audited Accounts for the Seventeenth Financial Period (1935) and Auditor's Report thereon. Item 15 : Budget of the League of Nations for the Nineteenth Financial Period (1937). Item 16 : Report of the Supervisory Commission. Item 17 : Contributions in Arrears. Item 18 : Allocation of Expenses. Item 19 : Report of the Administrative Board of the Staff Pensions Fund. Committee No. 5. —Humanitarian and Social Questions — Item 23 : Traffic in Opium and other Dangerous Drugs. Item 24 : Social Work. Committee No. 6. —Political Questions — Item 11 : Refugees — (а) Report of the Nansen International Office for Refugees. (б) Results of the work of the Committee on International Assistance to Refugees — (i) Report of the Committee on International Assistance to Refugees. (ii) Report of the Acting President of the Governing Body of the Nansen International Office for Refugees. (iii) Report of the High Commissioner of the League of Nations for Refugees, Jewish and Other, coming from Germany. Item 25 : Intellectual Co-operation. To Committee No. 6 was also referred on the request of the Norwegian delegation, the reports of the Mandatory Powers, the reports of the Permanent Mandates Commission, and all other documents relating to the question of mandates which were distributed to the Members of the League since the last session of the Assembly. Committee No. 3, Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, is referred to above. The above items will be specifically dealt with at a later stage of this report. They need no more than passing reference here. The following items, however, were referred to yet another Committee —the General Committee of the Assembly —to whose constitution I shall devote a sentence later, for consideration as to the procedure to be followed in regard to them — Item 4 (b) : Permanent Court of International Justice. Election to vacancies among the judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Item 6 (a) : Commission of inquiry for European union. Item 6 (b) : Appointment of the President of the governing body of the Nansen International Office for Refugees.

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