LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 19 September 1924, Page 1 (Supplement)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

BERLIN, Sept. 13. An a.uthorative announcement was issued last evening that Germany was unable to enter the League of Nations until the question of war guilt was settled. This caused a sensation and was joyfully greeted by the ]>ress. The newspapers of the Right denounced the Democrats and Socialists. It is now announced that the statement emanated from Herr Streseniann. It was his first act on returning to Berlin, and a Cabinet crisis is now considered to be certain.

NEW ZEALAND SCHEME. v GENEVA, Sept. 1

Mr Hyde’s scheme provides that the world shall be divided into areas. The l.eague shall decide what nations shall take part in a conflict and to what extent. In the event of war the nations in all the areas shall be considered to be nt war against the aggressor. The League shall be divided into three groups—Full members .accepting military and economic responsibilities; conditional members not accepting functions or economic responsibilities, but helping the League in other ways. MA R LBOROUGH MAN ’S FAME. Air H. E. Hyde, whose plan of military sanctions has aroused the interest of the League of Nations is a we.Uknown Marlburian, who was, until a few months ago the owner of Langridge Station. He is the son of the late Dr. Hyde, of Tinhorn Station, Tarras, Otago Central, and formerly superintendent of the Clyde Hospital. Air Hyde served during the war in the Royal Naval Air Service. A series of publications during the war revealed him as an international thinker, and his close attention to the question of whether it is possible to find a means for the elimination of war and the settlement, in a rational manner, of international disputes is shown in his hooks: ”The Two Roads: International Government or Alilitarisin ” and “The International Solution.” While at Langridge Mr Hyde was engaged on a series of other manuscripts on the same subject which are expected to be published shortly. He disposed of the Langridge property in May last to Mrs J. AV. Shirtliff and sailed for England on June 12. it being understood that ho was about to take up an attractive journalistic appointment in London. Mr Hyde married a daughter of Mr Frank Bullen, of Kaikoura.