UNITY NEEDED. LEAGUE GIVES UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 7

UNITY NEEDED.

LEAGUE GIVES UP.

ECONOMIC ACTION. ] Trade and Currency Barriers Must Disappear. DISCUSSION AT GENEVA. 3ritish Official Wireless. (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 5. A call for the complete removal of exchange restrictions and quotas so that international trade could attain increased prosperity, was made by Mr. TV. S. Morrison, Financial Secretary to the Treasury in Britain, in a Speech in the League of Nations Economic Committee. He said the British Government would be faced by very strong pressure on the part of certain interests in the United Kingdom to counteract intensified competition which would result from revaluation on the Continent. Such pressure would be difficult to resist, and he called upon other Governments to help the British Government in this respect. Before the committee's business concluded he hoped to submit for its consideration two resolutions. The first would cover the question of exchange restriction and quotas, and the second would deal with commercial access to raw materials. He suggested the appointment by the Council of the League of a committee composed of representatives of the Economic and Financial Committee of the League and other qualified persons to undertake a study of the entire problem of raw materials, and to furnish the League with a report. M. Bastid, French Minister of Commerce, said France hoped that other countries would follow her example in bringing about a new monetary system. This was necessary to assist economic recovery in the world. In reducing one-quarter of its quotas and its Customs tariffs, the French Government made a gesture to the world, but this could not have been done without a realignment of the franc. Other countries also would have to reciprocate. The French Government was willing to take the necessary measures to liberate capital and make the circulation of money and goods easier. On Mr. Morrison's proposal, M. Speinashe, Minister of National Economy in France, was appointed rapporteur of the work of the committee to the League Assembly.

Danzig Problem Handed Over To Poland. OBSTRUCTION FROM' NAZIS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, October 5. The League of Nations Council has requested the Polish Government to assume responsibility for finding a solution of the problems of Danzig. The Polish representative accepted the tasK The committee's report emphasises that it is clear that the Council and its High Commissioner, "are at present meeting with systematic obstruction from the Danzig Senate," which is Nazi in character. STRONGER LEAGUE. LABOUR PRESIDENT'S DEMAND British Official Wireless. (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 5. The annual conference of the Labour party'opened at Edinburgh. Mrs. J. L. Adamson presided over an attendance of about 750 delegates. In her speech she demanded the abolition of the household means test and criticised the Government housing programme. Referring to the international situation she demanded a strengthening of the League. What was needed was readiness on the part of statesmen to act upon the convictions of the peoples they represented. The chief desire of the peoples was for peace.