ABYSSINIA AND THE LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 6

ABYSSINIA AND THE LEAGUE.

Mr. A. Fraser's explanation that national and individual ethics are not the same clears up much that lias puzzled me hitherto. Regarding his queries, whether the Abyssinian is better off under Italian rule and whether Mr. Jordan would be so valiant if New Zealanl was within reach of Mussolini's bombers. I suggest that the Abyssinian native and Mr. Jordan respectively are the only o;ies competent to answer. On Juue 9 a meeting of the League Council will be held to consider the question—sponsored by Great Britain—of the recognition of the Abyssinian seizure. Upon the reaction of the League members de;>ends the future existence of the League of Nation?. Mr. Jordan's stand, for which he has been depicted as. the muddle-headed idealist in contrast to Mr. Chamberlain the clear-headed realist, is known. I make no excuses for Mr. Jordan, but claim him as the clear-headed realist, and that the Chamberlain policy of jettisoning the League principles for a partalliance system (a system that precipitated the Great War) and a part isolationist one (an impossibility) is the impractical one. being neither fi<h. fowl nor jrood red herring. Those who beliew that security to the peopleof the world can only be obtained by following the difficult road r.f doing unto others—and never by following th? easy road of expediency —should stand behind Mr. Jordan, for the next meeting of the League i< a crucial one. G. E. NALDER.

Mr. Jordan's bouncing , "Hie ball at Geneva might liav<? been commendable had it not been «?ucii bouncing humbiis. Why stop at petting the Italians out of Abyssinia? Why not giv. , the rest of Africa back to the native* of Africa? Why not give India to the people of India? Why nut -rive Ulster back to Eire* And (stop me if thi* one hurt?), why not give Xew Zealand back to the Maoris?* Parliament House humbug is no doubt nice, meaty mush for the Labour caucus: but at Geneva it might lie. used a> dynamite— not against Mussolini but awin-t fireat Britain. An 1 where would this country be without Great Britain? " IRISH.