LEAGUE OF NATIONS
THE LAST VOTE?
MR. DOIDGE'S HOPE
"I hope that this will be the last time we will see any vote for the League of Nations on the Estimates of this country," declai-ed Mr. F. W. Doidge (National, Tauranga), when discussing in the House of Representatives yesterday an item of £250 to cover the expenses of a delegate to Geneva. Mr. Doidge said that there were 52 nations associated with the League of Nations and pledged to stand together against any aggressor. "Why don't those 52 nations stand back of Britain?" he asked. I In reply to comment by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) that there would be problems after the war, Mr. Doidge agreed that there would be problems confronting them then, but he expressed the hope that by that time they would have set up in this country a Ministry of Reconstruction to deal with those problems. A little later the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. A. Hamilton), when discussing a sum of £111.728. voted as New Zealand's contribution towards the expenses of the Secretariat of the League, asked what was happening to the • Secretariat. Mr. Fraser said that their knowledge was very indefinite. "We cannot say whether they have been dispersed or not. It is probably being curtailed vei*y much indeed," he added.,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 8
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222LEAGUE OF NATIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 8
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