GENEVA PROTOCOL.
% SOUTH AFRICAN VIEW. TOO MANY OBLIGATIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) 1 CAPETOWN, June 20. A Parliamentary paper containing the communications which passed between the Prime Minister, General Hertzog, and the Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone, on the Geneva protocol, has been issued. The Ministers said they regretted that they could not recommend the acceptance of the protocol to Parliament. The protocol would only make it more difficult for the nations outside the League of Nations to join. It was impossible to calculate the obligations which would accrue from the protocol. Furthermore, the interests of South Africa demanded that no international obligations should be entered into which would entail participation or interference by the Union in matters which did not concern her, or only remotely concerned her, and by so doing her real and proper interests might eventually be jeopardised. The publication of the document now is regarded as significant, in view of the discussions on the new security pact proposed, and as an indication of the Government's attitude on the matter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19050, 22 June 1925, Page 9
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177GENEVA PROTOCOL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19050, 22 June 1925, Page 9
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