LEAGUE COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18672, 22 April 1926, Page 15

LEAGUE COUNCIL.

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' spirit of international pear* and eqv.a'itv of treatment of all countries concerned. .... Viscount Cecil said the question now at issue went back to the very foundation and fundamental constitution of the Council. He could not accept the ! argument of Lord Parmoor that it was 'the question of the admission of Germany to the Council of the League that gave rise to the desire to enlarge the permanent members by the admission of other States. The truth was rather different. The question of the admission of other States to be permanent members* of the Council had been debated at meetings of the Council and of the Assembly since 1921. As tiir A. Chamberlain had said at Birmingham, the question of the enlargement had been postponed because it was felt that when Germany came in then would be the proper time to deal with the matter. He was sure their loid hips would agree thit the representative of thd British Government, who would be th« P'orcign Secretary, should bs left a reasonably free hand to deal with the matter. It was an essential pait of Ihe pood uorking of the League that representatives of the Governments should not go there tied hand and foot by instructions. He could assure their lordships that no action of the British Government would be dictated by any distrust or suspicion of Germany or of any other nation. No nation could be admitted to the Council as a counterpoise to any other. Beyond that one might go so far as to siy that it would be a crave mistake if permanent status wre to be given arbitrarily to any particular country without any reason at all.