ITALY CONDEMNED
SIR JAMES ALLEN SPEAKS OUT.
LONDON, Ist October. Sir James Allen, in an interview, said : " The outstanding feature of the fourth League of Nations Assembly was the shadow of the Italo-Greek crisis. There can be no question that Italy threw the Covenant to the winds. There is no excuse for Italy's action. She broke her word and flouted the League. So much concern was felt in the Assembly that the delegates requested the Council for a statement on_ the question. It is significant that this statement, to which 'all the members of the Council, including the Italian, agreed, was largely a reiteration of a number of the articles of the Covenant which Italy had broken. The League had a dreadful shock. I doubt if it has recovered yet. " I do not believe .. that a blockade and econDmic pressure are feasible, but the League is an organisation which may create a healthy public conscience, and it is therefore desirable it should be fostered. There is a danger, however, of .the League being used for propaganda, and for the grouping of nations for their own interests, of which there was unmistakable evidence at this Assembly. It •is essential that delegates should think more of world-wide interests than their own national interests."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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211ITALY CONDEMNED Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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