Record

Performance TitleLeague of Nations Union Meeting
Performance Date8 May 1936
Performance DayFriday
Main PerformersViscount Cecil of Chelwood,
Clement Attlee MP (leader of the Opposition),
Sir Archibald Sinclair,
Mr Anthony Eden MP - speakers
Set ListSpeech (Lord Cecil),
Resolution - In support of the League of Nations, calling on the Government to maintain sanctions until Italy was ready to accept League terms of peace (Attlee),
Seconded (Sinclair)
Performance NotesThe meeting was called to consider the situation in Abyssinia and to reassert that the League should maintain its policy of Sanctions.
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work8031League of Nations Union Meeting1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3509Attlee; Clement (3 January 1883-8 October 1967); 1st Earl Attlee, KG OM CH PC FRS; British politician
DS/UK/6435Sinclair; Sir; Archibald Henry Macdonald (1890-1970); 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC; British politician
DS/UK/13021Cecil KG; Lord; Robert Arthur James Gascoyne- (1893-1972); 5th Marquess of Salisbury; British Conservative politician
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