PLEA FOR LOYALTY AND TOLERATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 229, 26 September 1936, Page 9

PLEA FOR LOYALTY AND TOLERATION.

LEAGUE MEMBERS. Need of Stronger Machinery Emphasised. MR. EDEN AT GENEVA. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) GENEVA, September 25. A packed Assembly heard Mr. Anthony Eden open the general debate. He began with a statement that Britain did not want to see nations divided into two camps. Forms of Government were.challenging each other, nationally controlled propaganda and controlled criticism had stifled thought. There had been a general weakening of confidence. "We should not allow anyone to wrest our democracy from us," he said. '"There must be toleration and international order. Two essential elements are the League machinery and the will to work it. The recent failure of collective security action was due to a lack of more energetic and more effective League intervention in the early stages of the crisis. "Members of the Council should early show how far they are prepared to intervene in the cause of peace. It would be a powerful deterrent, when military preparations are afoot, if regional pacts could be devised to strengthen the Covenant. Britain is resolved to negotiate such a pact in Western Europe. "Britain will persist in lier rearmament until nations have reached a limitation agreement. Not only weapons but war mentality must he laid aside." Loyalty and More Members. Mr. Eden, continues a British official wireless dispatch, said nationalism was strong and antagonism violent. The standard of living might be sacrificed for the standard of armament. After centuries of experience democracy appeared to be not effete but enduring. Almost every nation had repudiated war as .a.means, of settling disputes. He recommended enlargement of membership of the League, which needed the unqualified loyalty of its members. League machinery must be adapted to new developments. He pointed to the illogicality of the rule concerning unanimity in the Council and the fact that it was necessary to have a unanimous vote before the Council was able to make a recommendation. Raw Materials and Trade. It was important that the raw materials problem should be fully discussed. If disarmament was to be real it must not only be military. He favoured the taking of immediate steps to advance re-establishment of normal financial and economic dealings between the nations of the world. A nation did not increase respect for its form of government by pouring scorn on those of other countries. The first rule of an ordered life between the nations was faith in one's own national tenets and tolerance of those of others. STAND ON OWN FEET. League Control Withdrawn from Austria. NO OBJECTION BY POWERS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, September 25. Mr. Stanley Bruco (Australia) presented to the League of Nations Assembly the report of the work of the Financial Committee, in which was expressed the opinion the League s financial' control in Austria might suitably be terminated. Mr. Bruce explained that representatives of the States which guaranteed a loan to Austria m 1933-34 had raised no objections to his proposals. He therefore moved a resolution that the appointments of the League representative in Austria and adviser to the Austrian National Bank should be terminated. This was unanimously adopted. SILASSIE AMAZED. AT NEW ZEALAND'S ACTION. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. Mr. Noel Monks, ex-Australian war correspondent in Abyssinia, had an interview with Haile Silassie, who said he was amazed that countries which 1 hardly instance, Australia and New Zealand, rallied to Abyssinia s side in the League's decision." HAILE SILASSIE LEAVES. EMPEROR FOR LONDON. GENEVA, September 25. The • deposed Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Silassie, left Geneva for London last night. EFFORTS FOR PEACE. THREE GOVERNMENTS JOIN.' (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Treasury issued the following after consultation with the. Jrencli a American Governments, declde Jj£ J ° D them in affirming a common desire to foster those conditions which. will sale s „„d living."'