FINANCIAL BOYCOTT NOW EFFECTIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 245, 16 October 1935, Page 7

FINANCIAL BOYCOTT NOW EFFECTIVE.

ARGENTINE QUERY. Stand on Sanctions Causes Sharp Criticism. DISSENT FROM POLICY. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, October 15. The financial measures against Italy, which were approved by the Co-ordination Committee of the League Assembly, have effect from to-day subject to necessary action by the Governments concerned. Meanwhile, a provisional embargo on certain key imports for Italy may be imposed immediately. A committee of jurists is now at work considering constitutional legal difficulties, which might arise in the application of collective measures. These questions include that raised by the Argentine delegate, who pointed out that his country was in a spccial position owing to the very large Italian element, and added that the application of the proposed measures might be hindered by the constitution of the Argentine.

This dissent from League policy was sharply criticised by other delegates, and it was agreed that the whole question of non-participation in the working of the. Covenant should be reserved for consideration by the Co-ordinating Committee at a later stage. There is a general expectation at Geneva that the work of the various sub-committees will be sufficiently advanced to be brought before a meeting of the full Co-ordinating Committee, which consists of one representative from each State member, 011 Saturday. WORLD PROBLEMS. Sir Samuel Hoare Broadcasts!

To America. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. British Official Wireless. (Kecelvod 2 p.m.) RUGBY, October 15. Sir Samuel Hoarc gave a broadcast address to the fifth annual Women's Conference on Current Problems, meeting in New York. He said he hoped his speech in the League Assembly on September 11 had established beyond doubt that the British people were solidly behind the Covenant. He had tried, he said, to look behind immediate political difficulties to the causes of bitterness and strife, and had selected for special attention among the causes to be removed the question of control and distribution of colonial raw materials. He had suggested that it would be well to anticipate a controversy by examining that question without unnecessary delav.

The Foreign Minister then commended to his hearers the recent publication of the economic section of the League Secretariat called, "Remarks o\i the Present Phase of International Economic Relations," describing it as a sermon 011 the folly of our times. He cited a statement that "the malady from which the world is now suffering is 110 longer entirely a crisis but rather the inability of countries to co-ordinate their several efforts to emerge from a crisis," and he himself continued: "I fully agree that it seems to me the lowering of the barriers to international trade, slow and difficult as the task must inevitably be, is one of the most fundamental of tasks of the present time."

111 conclusion, Sir Samuel said that in democracies statesmen must appeal to the understanding and imagination of the people, for if tliey could not carry the people with them their individual wisdom was of no avail.

"This is why I welcome the chance of speaking to a great American audience and want to convince you that we in Britain stand for the abolition of war and the mentality of war whether 011 the field of battle or 011 the field of commerce, industry and labour. We want a new world and a new order in human relations, in which peace, justice, trade and intercourse shall be secjire, and I am sure these are also your wishes and ideals."