WORLD POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1932, Page 5

WORLD POLITICS

WEEK OF MOMENTOUS GRAVITY. DEBTS, GERMANY, MANCHURIA ■ ’ AND INDIA. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

-LONDON, November 21

The newspapers here emphasise that not since the fateful days of July, 1914, has the world faced a week of such momentous gravity a s this in international affairs. Mr Hoover is meeting. Mr Roosevelt at Washington to discuss the war debt problem, while the League of Nations is confronted with the necessity of making a decision on the Lytton report on Manchuria. On this matter not only the peace of the Far ‘ East depends, but also th e future of the League of Nations, as the possibility of' Japan’s withdrawal from the League cannot be ignored. Then there is the interna' political crisis in Germany, <and the tin J round table conference on India, and problems of taxation and of unemployment which the British must face. These are only less momentous. Geneva telegrams state that gloom lias now descended on Geneva, in view of Japan’s attitude iand of th e , Chinese threat to invoke the League’s boycott clause against Japan if-China is not “granted justice.”