"GETTING TOGETHER."

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 213, 7 September 1921, Page 4

"GETTING TOGETHER."

The fact of a Chinese diplomat presiding over the Assembly.of the League of Nations, and delivering the opening address in English, should appeal strongly to the world's imagination. It illustrates both the world-wide extent of the League and its democratic nature. China is not a great Power. She is, on the contrary, at the present moment, physically one of the most powerless and indeed helpless of nations. There is not even one Government for the wholo of the country. Yet China is represented on the Council of the League, and her representative with the strange name —it would 'be interesting to learn why he was called '•Wellington" —has dono useful work in a quiet way. Indeed tho League is doing a good deal of useful work that does not loom large in tho public eye. That China should nupply a temporary President of the Assembly of the League is an indication to the world that the League is not merely a replica of the Supreme Council of the Allies, but that it has a status and individuality of its own. However much difference of opinion there may be about the extent to which it has fulfilled the expectations of its founders, it is certainly bringing the nations together.