Believes Real Day Of League Will Come

Northern Advocate, 22 December 1939, Page 8

Believes Real Day Of League Will Come

[Per Press Association.—Copyright! AUCKLAND, This Day.

There have been achievements in the past, and there have been disappointments, but the League of Nations remains the rallying point of international co-operatiom This view was expressed this morning by Mr R. J. F. Boyer, Australian delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations, when he arrived on the Mariposa today on his way back to Australia.

He said the efficiency of the League lay more in prevention than in intervention.

He !did 'njot think (Britain would ask for intervention, but he believed the real day of the League would come, though perhaps. with a different form and constitution. • Small nations looked to the League for guidance, Mr Boyer said. Nobody /could say how long the war would last, as the situation 'was changing rapidly and was complex. Future Depends on Russia.

It was felt that the future depended on Russia and what was the nature of its “tie up” with Germany. If those forces definitely fused, the situation would become more involved.

Just before the outbreak of war Mr Boyer was in Germany. He said the mass of the German people did not want war, but were dominated by propaganda. There was a feeling of loyalty to Hitler for improving their economic position, but they feared how far he would go and realised the danger of an expansionist policy.