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Performance TitleLeague of Nations Union Meeting - Europes Rally to the League and the International Peace Campaign
Performance Date30 April 1937
Performance DayFriday
Main PerformersLord Cecil (presiding),
M Pierre Cot (French Air Minister),
P J Noel Baker MP,
Dr Alice Masaryk (Daughter of the first President of Czechoslovakia)
M Hambro, (President of Norway's Parliament)
M Rolin (Senator of Belgium and President of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies)
Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral - speakers
Set List'God Save the King' (The National Anthem)

Speeches
Performance Notes"Lord Cecil presided at a League of Nations Union Meeting in the Albert Hall last night, when 7,000 people passed a resolution expressing horror at the bombing of the Spanish towns and the slaughter of fleeing inhabitants."
(The Times, 1 May 1937)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1937/35)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1937/35Royal Albert Hall Meeting 30 April 1937
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OoloboixowpifefLeague of Nations Union Meeting - Europes Rally to the League and the International Peace Campaign1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/158League of Nations Union; 1918-1948; International peace, security and justice organisation
DS/UK/20330Masaryk; Alice (1879-1966); Czech-born teacher, sociologist, politician
DS/UK/20331Cecil; Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne- (1864-1958); 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC, Lord Robert Cecil; British politician
DS/UK/6714Baker; Philip John Noel- (1889-1982); British politician, diplomat, academic, amateur athlete, disarmament campaigner
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