INDIA DISSATISFIED
MAY LEAVE LEAGUE
SANCTIONS NOT AUTOMATIC
(Received September 26, 9 a.m.) GENEVA, September 24.
The representatives of South Africa, India, Sweden, Albania, Lithuania, Poland, and Norway agreed with Earl de la Warr when the Political Committee of the League debated sanctions. Sir N. Sircar, India, said a section in India was increasingly dissatisfied with the League owing to its loss of prestige and its helplessness regarding Abyssinia and China, and also owing to India's inadequate representation on the Secretariat in view of India's couI tribution. He said that if her grievances increased there was a probability of India's withdrawal.^ Mr. Butler, closing the debate, emphasised that Britain was maintaining the essential character of the Covenant while bowing to practical necessities. Britain was recognising that unconditional application of sanctions could not at present be expected from all members of the League. Addressing the League Assembly on September 16 Earl de la Warr, Lord Privy Seal, explained the British attitude to Article 16. He was insistent that the League could not remain indifferent to aggression, but suggested that sanctions should not be automatic. Each case should be considered on its merits.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1938, Page 8
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