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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1929, Page 4

Lecturing in Paris on the organisation of peace in Europe, Viscount Cecil of Ohelwood said that the League of Nations, though deserted by its original parents and regarded by the rest of the world as an interesting foundling, had become a vigorous adolescent. The League, as it now was, had developed from two great principles, the one being the solidarity of nations, whose interest was greater than their hostility, and the other a genuine desire on the part of mankind for peace. Fear remained the principal obstacle in the desire for peace, and it was an element with which the League was not able to deal. The League, however, could delay and discuss, it could provide the machinery for arbitration, and could 'inpose outlawry, and it could promote the red notion of armaments, which were in efleet the three principles afterward discovered by Mr MacDonald and M. Herriot as arbitration, security and disarmament. The establishment of the Permanent Court bad already bad an immense success in the prevention of wars, continued Viscount Cecil, and it had been supplemented by the Briand-Kellogg Pact, but there were gaps in the structure I which must be filled. The Pact was I only a beginning. While it gave an indication of the way to arbitration it still provided no machinery for carrying it out. With the great exception of Locarno little progress had been made toward security, but disarmament, apart from Washington, had made considerable strides, the preparatory work at Geneva being full of hope, especially with regard to naval disarmament. In a concluding survey of the great advances made since the institution of the League the speaker

referred to the necessity of developing the arbitration side of the peace' problem, and laid particular emphasis on the duty of the nations to keep the peace now that their right to it was safeguarded by Article XI of the Covenant. It seems probable that this year will witness great developments in regard to international peace, and the greatest credit for that will be due to Great Britain, who, since its association with the movement, has been most genuine in its efforts to attain the desired gaol set for the League of Natons.