HOPE IN THE LEAGUE

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 42, 28 May 1935, Page 4

HOPE IN THE LEAGUE

"The League of Nations is, indeed, the only hope of a war-weary, peaceloving world," writes the Earl of Lytton in the "Daily Mail." "Whether or not it will justify the hopes that it inspires, whether or not the nations will make use of the alternative which it provides, time alone will show. Its efficacy can be determined only by experience. The League has >been able to arrive at decisions on the merits of many disputes; it has yet to find the best way of getting its decisions accepted. Its members who are ready enough to have recourse to its procedure in the disputes of other States have yet to prove their willingness to accept its intervention in their own. Mr Alfred Lyttelton once defined a true sportsman as a cricketer who, being given 'out' wrongly by an umpire, accepts the decision without a murmur. That is a high test which is not passed by all sportsmen; and, unfortunately, the habit of setting a higher value on playing the game than on v inning it does not appear to be on the increase. The League of Nations

will only achieve complete success when all its members agree to submit all their disputes to its judgment and accept its decision."