Empire delegates leave after League Council meeting . Delegates left St James Palace after the League Council had met to hear Germany ' s case for the reoccupation of the Rhineland put by Herr von Ribbentrop , chief German delegate . Photo shows , Sir James Parr , High Commissioner for New Zealand ( extreme right ) and Mr TE Water , High Commissioner for South Africa , ( second from right ) leaving after the meeting . 19 March 1936