BRITAIN AND SANCTIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 15, 30 October 1935, Page 5

BRITAIN AND SANCTIONS.

“HISTORIC MILESTONE.”

CONFIDENCE IN EFFECT. LONDON, October 28. Referring to the issue of the ordcr-in-eouncil providing for the application of sanctions by Britain, ‘'Tne Times” says: “Steady and inexorably, the machinery of the league is bemg set in motion, with the purpose and assured certainty that it will set a limit to the present war, both in time and in extent.”

The “Manchester .Guardian” says:— “The issue of the order-in-council marks a historic milestone. Without any animosity against the Italian people, and without any direct interest in the war between Italy and Abyssinia, the British Government accepts the unanimous decision of the league that Italy is the aggressor, in defiance of the covenant, and applies the agreed measures.”

The “Manchester Guardian” says that by to-day it should be known how many other nations are ready to impose economic sanctions in conformity with the solemn words of the delegates at Geneva. The newspaper expresses the hope that the example of the country and the Dominions will be useful. “For the success of economic sanctions,” it adds, “speed and. comprehensiveness are required.”

WORLD PROBLEM OF WAR.

ISOLATION NO SOLUTION

LONDON, October 28

In his speech at Wolverhampton, the Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) said that in the last two or three months peace had ceased to be an academic question and had become a matter of personal reality to every man, woman, and child. The problem presented to the world was no less than this; Are differences, when they arise between nations, to be solved by war, or can they be solved by a process of law as used in private differences P There could be but one answer to that. The people of Britain could not solve these grave matters by putting themselves in a state of isolation from the world. A co-operative effort for peace was not a dream ; it was not Quixotic, hut was hard common sense.