LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4148, 19 November 1920, Page 6

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

THE CONFERENCE AT GENEVA

DOING GOOD WORK

'v Kiactrie Telegraph. —Copyright. 1 (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association. > London, November 18. Lord Robert Cecil criticised the opinion expressed that the League was dead. He said that the Council s report gave the lie thereto. The Council had done ah immense amount of valuable international-work both in organisation and political and constructive work. It Avas necessary to get the machinery in order before they could come to the vast problems confronting the League. He was hopeful that the year's work would be ot such a nature as to appeal to the publio of the world. Britain was anxious that there should be all possible economy in the Leagues finances but even if half a million a year 'were spent, that was a small, premium to pay for a League, whose object was to prevent Avar, when we compared it with the daily cost ol the late war. 1 As the mandates had been referred to a commission, it would be improper to comment thereon at this stage, but lip hoped that there would be no i further delay in establishing the mandatory systems. Lord Robert Cecil appealed' \to the League to take prompt steps to relieve Armenia. He uro'ed the "Ceuncil to inform the Assembly, regarding the precise situation between Poland and Lithuania. Lord Robert Cecil concluded by. appealing to the Assembly not to show timidity in its work. He reminded them that he represented General Smuts, against whom Ins father had war. He felt specially that be represented the spirit of reconciliation. . ~ M. Puerredon, Argentina, considered that all the Sovereign States desiring to join should be permitted t,. do so. Exclusion of certain States mU'hb provoke the establishment of another League, also that the present League should be regarded as an alliance'for the liquidation of Avar, rather than a powerful organisation to ensure peace. PERSIAN DELEGATE ROBBED. The Council has received a telegram 'stating that robbers attacked Prmce. Arfad, chief Persian delegate to the League of Nations, while journeying from Persia to Geneva. Arfad's secretary was killed, but Arfad resumed the journey.