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See Report of Indian Delegation to Special Assembly (March 1926), para. 20.
Assembly
Resolution
(•2. r > Sept.).
proposal at the 8 ixth Assembly had not been communicated to us and time
short to obtain orders on the Secretary-General’s suggestions. Therefore no
was made by the Indian Delegation.
was too
proposal
(b) Lffect of Itepayment from the Building Fund on the Contribution of India to
the League.
42. We mentioned in para. 71 of our Interim Report that arrangements had been
made to reiund to individual states Members a proportionate amount, based on their
contribution out of the surplus accumulated by the League over and above its
actual expenditure The surplus, which has been allowed to accumulate, is be ins-
employed to pay for part of the cost of the erection of an Assembly Hall and
Secretariat which was approved at the Special Session® of the Assembly (March 1920)
lhe am ° u ? t )y‘ Kl ^ approximately 11,500.000 gold francs, and it is proposed that
a sum of 1,400,000 gold francs shall be refunded annually over a period of years to
the btates which contributed to create the surplus. Of this sum India will receive
approximately £3,700 per annum. India’s contribution under the existing allocation
scheme to the 1927 Budget would be about £54,000 a year. It will, however be
reduced by this means to a little over £50,000.
(c) Posts for Indians in the Secretariat and International Labour Organisation.
43. \\ e reproduce in Appendix III a speech of Sir Ramaswami Ayyar in which he
represented the desirability of employing more Indians in posts at Geneva We
have referred to this matter in para. 70 of our Interim Report. The present number
of posts assigned to Indians is clearly incompatible with India’s financial and other
contributions to the League. At the same time it has to be borne in mind that the
Secretary-General and Director-General of the International Labour Office have few
vacancies to iill now that the cadres have been stabilised. The Secretary-General
undeitook, dining the Committee discussions, that while as a general rule he must
reserve posts for precis-writers, translators and stenographers for the nationals of
Lnglish-speaking or brench-speaking countries, he would continue to endeavour to
ensure that higher posts were distributed as far as possible among the nationals
of the various States Members of the League. It was impossible to obtain a more
specihc promise from him on this point.
•14. The Assembly adopted on 25th September the following Resolution:—
The Assembly:
1. In virtue of Article 38 of the Regulations for the Financial Administration of the League, finally
approves the audited accounts of the League for the seventh financial period, ending December 31st, 1925 •
2. In virtue of Article 17 of the Regulations for the Financial Administration of the League
approves for the financial year 1927, the general Budget of the League, of the Secretariat and of the
.Special Organisations of the League, of the International Labour Organisation and of the Permanent
omt of International Justice, the total amount of which, including supplementary credits is 21 512 341
gold francs, and decides that the said budgets shall he published in the Official Journal; ’
3. Adopts in so far as they have been approved by the Fourth Committee, the conclusions of the
various reports ot the Supervisory Commission submitted to its consideration ;
4. Approves the schedule showing the proportional interest of each Member of the League in the
League Budding Fund; e
5. Fixes at 79 the number of units allocated to Germany in the scale of apportionment of the Lease’s
expenditure; n
6. Adopts the conclusions of the Report of the Fourth Committee;
7. Notes that the Internal Control Service of the League of Nations experiences difficulty and is
caused corisiderable trouble by the fact that members of Committees and other persons who have to submit
lequests for repayment do not always take into consideration the exact terms of the various Reirulatioiis
governing the financ.al administration of the League of Nations, and, therefore, requests member, of
Committees and all other persons performing work of any kind whatever at the request and at the
expense of the League of Nations to comply strictly with the above Regulations, and, in ease of doubt
to apply for information beforehand to the competent officials ; ’
+ WI 1 ' lle a PP re( : iatlT1 ^ the Results of the sale of publications and approving the proposals submitted
to.tby the Supervisory Commission and the Secretary-General .•dative to the extension of those sales
and a stricter supervision of the employment of the grants for printing •
Decides to draw the attention of the Advisory Committees and the Conferences convened by the
League to the heavy expense entailed by the publication of their minutes and requests then, to consider
1 ;‘ !r t, . l<! implication of their discussions would not frequently be better effected 1 by means of a detailed
report giving as exactly as possible an account of their work; ^ etaneci