“The League of Nations is a Colossus, hut a somewhat clumsy Colossus,” declared the Hon. W. Pember Reeves at Christchurch recently. When the League was strong and efficient enough to hold in check a powerful nation which was determined to* be troublesome he would have more conlidence in it. But while he did not desire to criticise the League, he was not certain that it could hold in check a powerful belligerent. “You must not think that in the League of Nations you have a. substitute for the protection and comfort offered by the British Empire,” he said. Mr. Reeves added: “f have devoted a great deal of study to the States of the Balkan Peninsula. There is not a set- of communities who have' suffered so much from l he (treat Powers and from their neighbours.” They were an awful example of what small independent countries might become, and lie would hate to see New Zealand divorce herself from the protective bulwark of the British Empire. ('Aippl a u se).
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 10
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