LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENTS. BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. STATEMENT BY FOREIGN MINISTER. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received February 20, 11 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 19. Mr Arthur Henderson stated in the House of Commons in reply to a question that the Government had informed the Secretary General of the League that it continued to support whole-heartedly the principle involved in the proposal to bring the Covenant of the League into harmony with the Pact of Paris and that it was ready to join in with the other members of the League in accepting the amendments put forward by. the First Committee of the- recent Assembly, subject to a proviso that the ratification of these amendments on behalf of the United Kingdom will be made dependent on the entry into force of the general treaty for the reduction and limitation of armaments. As regards the general position of other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations he recalled the conclusions reached on this subject during the Imperial Conference and said that their Governments would doubtless address the Secretary-General of the League in a similar sense.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 69, 20 February 1931, Page 7
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