The Manawatu Daily Times FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935. The League’s Achievement

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 276, 22 November 1935, Page 6

The Manawatu Daily Times FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935. The League’s Achievement

"If there is any special turning-point in the League fortunes at this moment,” said the London limes, in reviewing the situation.at the beginning of last month, “then history will probably record that its reputation never stood higher in the eyes of the world. The League has imposed, as rvas its iirst, duty, the maximum period of deliberation and delay before a threatened act of aggression. It has formulated an agreed programme of settlement. It has rallied behind it a gieat force of public opinion from every quarter of the globe. It has cleared itsell of the last suspicion of interested motives, such as were certain to be attributed to this or that country, particularly to their own, by propagandists anxious to split its ranks.

“That it may fail in the last resort to prevent an act of war has been foreseen by most of us from the iirst indication, long before Walwal, of Signor Mussolini’s intentions. The best police force in the world cannot be certain of preventing a breach of the peace and the League is not a police force. That does not mean tiiat its usefulness is ended, or that it cannot play an increasingly decisive part even in the present quarrel. The clamour that, having done its best, the League should now stand aside with folded arms, is hardly less mischievous than the attitude of those who have disparaged and thwarted it from the beginning. ”