LEAGUE’S EFFORTS
Two Geneva Men REVIEW OF WORK Convinced of the value of the work of the League of Nations, two of those connected with it addressed the Wellington branch of the League of Nations Union last night. They were Mr. J. V. Wilson, private secretary to Sir Eric Drummond, and Major Harston, whose work is the distribution of the documents of the league. Mr. Wilson said that the chief portion of the work of the league was divided into two phases, the first, the measures taken to organise peace; the second, the reduction of armaments. Remarking that one was astounded at the number of measures taken towards peace, he traced the value of each of the chief ones, and declared that no one could work at Geneva without being impressed by the strength of the covenant. Nevertheless, a thing was not necessarily good if it was made up at Geneva. Dealing with the reduction of armaments, Mr. Wilson spoke of the vital importance of the conference upon this, which would be held next year, and paid a tribute to Lord Cecil’s work in this regard. Major Harston dealt with the work which the league was doing in the spheres of medicine and economics. When the parrot disease broke out, the various nations sent their data to Geneva, and within a short time the league staff was able to get out a booklet, which must have been of assistance to the medical men of the various nations. The league had been able to change the whole health system of Greece, and was now going to try to do the same in China. Dealing with ‘the depression, Major Harston said that financial experts and the economists were in constant communication with members of the league’s staff, and he believed that they would find a solution, but it was a matter of time. Thanking the speakers for their addresses, the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, declared that war, like all pestilences, would eat itself out, and said that the League of Nations was going to be the instrument that was going to' give it its dispatch.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 5
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