NO ALTERNATIVE FOUND.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1938, Page 5

NO ALTERNATIVE FOUND.

THE LEAGUE AND WORLD PEACE. FAILURE OF MEMBERS (British Official Wireless.) .Received Thursday, 7.30 p.m. RUGBY, .Nov. 30. The House of Lords' debate on the League of Nations was opened by Lord Ponsonby, who asked if the Government would make immediate preparations for a close international consultation on the underlying causes of complaint and friction between nations of the world. He also asked whether it would consider proposals for an amendment to the Covenant so that the League might be absolved from any of its present political and military obligations and be established as an all-inclusive permanent body for examining, deliberation on and, if possible, resolving economic, commercial, currency and colonial problems, which, if neglected, might continue to cause international conflict.

. Lord Ponsonby expressed the view t tliat the present League was a danger to European peace so long as its basis was military, but if it became economic it would be the obvious solution to world problems. Lord Londonderry said it was not so much the League which had failed as its members had not carried out their obligations. Lord Strabolgi represented the view that the, League provisions for pooled security were more necessary than ever, and Lord Cecil also argued the need for the organisation of peace on a basis of collective responsibilities. Replying for the Government, Lord Halifax said the League as it stood was readily available for the effective use of the Government and the people if they desired to use it. Referring to a statement by General Smuts that the United States should be admitted to the League on a special basis of membership and for a standing committee of great Powers as pa'.'t of the League machinery, Lord Halifax said both suggestions seemed to him worthy of close study.

General Smuts had also said no alternative to the League system for peace had been found and that to scrap it and leave a vacuum would be an immense waste of human effort and leave the world without any reasonable means of procedure. That Lord Halifax thought, was profoundly true and he certainly would be very proud to make General Smuts' words his own.

In connection with Anglo-American relations, he drew attention to the forthcoming visit to the United States of Mr. Anthony Eden, who, he said, was going with the fullest agreement and approbation of the British Government, and expressed the opinion that his visit would be extremely valuable in its effects.

GERMANY WILL NOT ARGUE ABOUT COLONIES. GOEBBELS IN FIGHTING MOOD Received Friday, 1 a.m. BERLIN, Dec. 1. Br. Goebbels, in the course of a speech at Jaegerndord, Sudetenland, again criticised Britain who, he says, "enjoys interfering in German affair?. She must not be surprised if Germany intrudes in internal questions in the British Empire." He added: "Germany will not argue regarding her colonial claims. Her purpose is clear and definite."

The News-Chronicle says the British move for the development of AngloGerman trade, regarding which officials recently visited Berlin, has been quietly dropped temporarily, owing to the changed temper of the German Govern ment recently.

"GERMANY WILL GET TANGANYIKA" NEW. ZEALANDER'S OPINION. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. "The general idea is that Germany wilL get Tanganyika," said Mr. J. J. Crmandy, formerly of Ohristchurch, who is visiting New Zealand after four years in .South Africa, in an interview to-day. "We feei that, when Germany does that, it will not be long oefore she will get Transvaal and after that the Gold Reef."

German radio stations were regularly speaking to natives in South Africa iti* Afrikaans, said Mr. Ormandy. There were also strong anti-Jew and pro.-Naxi elements in South Africa itself, but tho better-educated white people realised that the Jews were the economic backbone of the country. "Johannesburg is more or less owned by the Jews financially," he said. "All the big stores are owned by Jews. It is no good going to town on a Jewish holiday because there is nowhere to go and nothing to do." The Jews lived very expensively and contributed greatly to the prosperity of the country. At present they were subscribing enormous sums to help the distressed Jews in Europe. Mr. Ormandy had left Johannesburg before the recent anti-Jewish disturbances became serious, and he knew little of the propaganda methods of the anti-Jew faction. Anti-Jew pamphlets were being distributed, he said. That was to impart Nazi ideas to the Duteu poor whites.