MR JORDAN AT GENEVA
URGENT QUESTION IN THE HOUSE NEW ZEALAND’S ATTITUDE TO SANCTIONS (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, October 1. The views expressed by the High Commissioner for New Zealand <Mr W J. Jordan) at the. .League of Nations Assembly at Geneva were referred to by the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates (Nat., Kaipara) in an urgent question in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr Coates asked the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. • Savage) whether Mr represented the policy of the New Zealand Government, and whether they meant in effect that once the league named a state as an aggres c or New Zealand would automatically put into force full sanctions. Mr Savage said the views of the New Zealand Government o reform of the covenant of tne League of Nations were fuhy stated to the parliamentary paper tabled in Parliament on September !). _ <<r rhp visws expressed oy dan oS New ZcaWa in a complete and automatic system r* collective security, as reported in the press cables, do not way inconsistent . with this stai ment” said Mr Savage. j 1 , The statement referred to by_MrRavage was published m “Press” on September 3, haying been released for publication before it was tabled in Parliament.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21903, 2 October 1936, Page 10
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