BRITISH SUPPORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MISERLY CONTRIBUTION. BENEFITS MANY TIMES MORE FROM ACTIVITIES. “The total British contribution to tho League this year is only £95,764,” that includes tho International Labour Oflicc. It is loss than a quarter of tho sinuutil cost ol ? the mere nia.iiitcii3.uec of one battleship. It represents a cost per head of about ouc-cighth of ons farthing,” writes Mr. W. Arnold Forster in the Socialist Review. “Last year, Nansen having been refused government help for those wretched Armenians, managed to scrape togcthci £IOO,OOO from private sources. He came, to the League for £2OOO for costs o*-' administration. When the vote was put one. delegate only dared to raise a hand against it; that was the delegate of (ho wealthiest Power represented, Great Britain! £98,000 we contribute. We receive nearly double that amount in interest of our Austrian Bonds, which we hold, thanks to tho League’s Austrian reconstruction scheme, in place of a bad debt of £2,000,000. Ouu operation of one section of the League’s work brings us. in much more than our total contribution to the League."
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 3
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181BRITISH SUPPORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 3
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