SAVING THE LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 9

SAVING THE LEAGUE

BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS

REFORM. MEASURES

LEFT TO THE ASSEMBLY.

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LONDON, June 4,

It is evident from discussions between the heads of delegations at the Imperial Conference concerning reform of the League that neither England nor the Dominions is able to submit any definite scheme wJiereby the League might be saved.

The meeting was held in the Cabinet room. Mr. M.vJ. Savage and Mr. W. Nash represented New Zealand.

. The Foreign Secretary, Mr.' Anthony Eden, made a frank statement of the League's failures, including Manchukuo and Abyssinia, and. outlined the attitude of foreign. Powers, revealing wide divergences over Article 16 and the general issue of sanctions. He declared that the smaller States want t» make the Covenant more binding, while some of the major Powers, particularly those which are not prepared to fulfil the obligations of sanctions, want the Covenant to be less binding.

The delegates fully agreed that the League is worth preserving as one of the definite hopes for world peace.

It is gathered that Mr. Savage'l views have been among the most outr spoken and that he vigorously advo« cated a stronger League.

The Australian Associated Press agency understands that the Conference is framing a' resolution emphasising the unity of Britain and the Do« minions for- the maintenance of tha League, but that measures for reform will be left to the League Assembly when it meets in September to consider the report of a committee oivths subject.