MERITS CONFIDENCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 4 July 1936, Page 9

MERITS CONFIDENCE

FRENCH VIEW OF LEAGUE. REGIONAL PACTS URGED. COVENANT DEBATED. Received July 4, 10.5 a.m. GENEVA, July'3. The Spanish Foreign Minister (Senor Bareia).. speaking in the League assembly, urged that the League Covenant d.d not need reform, but tho practice of Uie spirit in Avhicli it was applied. M. jjeibos (France) said that economic and "financial measures alone Avould not stop Avar. The community must bring all tlie means at tlieir disposal, including force, inco action at the outset. ‘Mlie solution lies in new regional pacts, or strengthening the existing ones. The League still merits confidence. It has not succeeded, because the weapons of the Covenant were not used to their full effect,” M. Delbos declared.

WOMEN’S VOICE. ANGUISH OF FEAR, Received Julv 4, 11.55 a.m. GENEVA, July 3. When the Assembly resumed this evening Miss Herstin Hesselgrin (Sw-eden) Avas the only Avoman speaker. She said: ‘‘The Avomen throughout the world are suffering intense anguish from the danger of Avar. Hoav can women Avish to bear children in a world which is so hopeless? You Avill get the women’s collaboration Avholelieartedly if you Avork for peace.” The Mexican delegation informed the President that his nation Avould not participate further in the proceedings concerning Italy and Abyssinia and Avas abstaining from voting. “We do not agree \vith the handling of the dispute, but we do not Avish to obstruct the Avork of the. Assembly,” he said. It is belieA'ed the Committee of Coordination Avill recommend a date between July 10 and July 15 for the abolition of sanctions.

DEATH OF SANCTIONS

DRAFTING OF RESOLUTION

LONDON, July 3. Tlie Times Geneva correspondent says the Assembly’s co-ordination committee lias been instructed to prepare a resolution or declaration recommending the cessation of sanctions, if possible, including a definite date for their removal in all countries. A decisive meeting Avill probably he held on Saturday, but progress may be delayed by the Abyssinian delegation’s unexpected action in submitting tivo resolutions—one inviting the League not to recognise tlie territorial changes effected by force, and the other asking for a £10,000,000 loan. EXPELLED ITALIANS. GENEVA, July 2. The majority of the expelled journalists have gone to Rome, and the others hai'C gone to Copjieo, outside the Geneva boundary, where they Avere sympathetically joined by the remaining Italian newspapermen attending the League, avlio are continuing to report from Copper.