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Show LEAGUE UNION OPENS SESSIONS ' LONDON. March 11. (By tho Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The conference of the j League of Nations union opened at Wcst- minster today and elected Lord .Shaw as president. The delegates included Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the committee '. sent to 'the peace conference 'by the American League to "Enforce Peace, j Leon Bourgeois, president of the French i Society fnr a League of Xa lions: Dr. ; Fridtjoff Nanscn, Arctic explorer and one ! of the organizers of the Norse Society for la League of Nat ions, and LHpthcrios Yenizelos, prime minister of Greece, were I present. M. Bourgeois and M. Venizelos in their I speeches both deprecated the requiring of complete unanimity at first as likely to i endanger Ihe success of the league of na-! na-! tions. A resolution favoring the free exercise j of reliirion. submitted by the de' elates - from the American League to Ln force i Peace, was adopted by the conference. |