Britain and The League

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 220, 13 June 1936, Page 26

Britain and The League

“It is bad enough,” says “The Times,” of London, “that the fidelity of this country to the collective ideal should be thwarted by the timidity of others. It would have been incomparably worse if British policy bad been tarnished and impaired for ever by its own breach of faith. In the most conspicuous case of aggression which it is possible to imagine Great Britain has tried out the whole present capacity of the League for effective common action. She has found it wanting, and the ease for its reconstruction, which has become more and more imminent, will hardly, even be disputed now. Nor is there any reason whatever to despair of the task, or to suppose that the whole system of the League is at an end just because there are palpably cases in which the machinery will not work. More and more, as the world draws closer together, it. will require a focus and meeting point for Hie discussion and settlement of its problems. There is a risk of forgetting, on the morrow of a glaring failure, how many problems, with all the seeds of war in them, have, in fact, been settled in recent years at Geneva. Nor is anyone likely to dispute that the immediate purpose of British policy must be to press on with the new effort, to make British influence effective in Hie League of the future ,aud meanwhile to work to Hie utmost to bring back those nations.

particularly Germany, which at present stand outside.''