SECOND EDITION LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 6

SECOND EDITION LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

fflv Klectrio Telenraph.-Cop.yrigh*.) ■' Received Jfuna'2Q; 2.16 p.m. LONDON, JuiK}il7. . In the Houst' of Commons ispoakiug on tlu« Loaglie of Nations, MrAsqtuth said-that ho imped the victorious Powers would not ho slow to set an example as. regards disarmament. Hei.asket whether the. Polish aggression did not come within article 11, and whether he inutdatd for Palestine cams lrom tho Leagnej and asked similarly regarding Mesopotamia. Ho urgod.tho winding up of the Supreme Council ui order to let btie League become a,,-ron ity. Lord Robert Cecil declared that the lack of (a formal decision regarding the Mandate by America was producing "Vv deplorable conditions. He urged, tftft all these! should be settled at the earliest moment. There was no room for two supremo international, bodies such as tho Supreme Council nnd the Council of the League -In regard to iVmerica it was difficult for,us to discuss fre'elv her position, but he was sure nothing would encourage our friends in America more than to be able to argue with them that is the League had accomplished so much ut the preservation of peace, it was undesirable that they should stand aside in the ereat work. ■ " . •, , Mr A J.'Ball'our. reterrmg to the question of mandates, said that lie terms of the mandates were to be u - termined>y the Peace Con ereuce biit ho llS e to which the mandates should bo put was' left to . tho League o Nations. That was intended at las eonsequently it was regrettable that mandates were unready, lie would not say it was a matter for the-League to ■h* blamed- for; if was due to the tact that negotiations had taken longer time than- V ns anticipated. Ihe League would come in when, the mandatory powers accepted the respqnsibilitj loi carrying out the mandates.-r(Router.)