LORD CECIL’S VIEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 14

LORD CECIL’S VIEWS

i CURRENT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS I NIC ED OF ORGANISATIONS FOR PEACE GERMANY AND RETURN OF COLONIES I Ull ill'll I’M’KM \ MHoC.I I 1(111 -liV EUm'l rl<! Trlutrruiili -• 1 '<>|>vriirli l l i i Received 18th November. 9.0 a.m.) j NEW YORK. 17th November. | Viscount Cecil of Cholwood. who has : been the guest of President Roosevelt, j gave an flour’s interview to the Press, and with his usual boldness presented 1 his opinions on current international conflicts. His remarks contained the warning that only the maintenance of I v.(.rid organisations for peace stands, between the nations and a repetition ■ of 1914. j Lord Cecil urged economic sanctions j against Japan if she could not be induced to cease aggression against China, land ho depreciated the possibility of I an international war irising from sane- : j lions. j Concerning Germany and colonies, he j 1 said: A plan for the naked transfer of ! territory to Germany would be difficult. I would be loluctant to see the : transfer of masses of negroes or oth- 1 i ers bacK to Germany to-dav, but I am | jin favour of the abolition-of the whole ! conception of individual ownership of i I those undeveloped territories." ! Pointing out that the attitude of the j present German Government toward ! racial questions differs from that of | the Imperial regime, Lord Cecil intii mated that considerations of human- | itv must take precedence, even in Ger- : many's need of vital raw materials, in j deciding the lulurc of the former Ger- j i man colonies with Iheir countless mil-! | lions of coloured pet pic. I Discussing his favourite topic, the j League of Nations, Lord Cecil conceded , i that the League was dangerously I weakened by the defection of Germany ] and the virtual desertem of Italy. I "But the League is not. dead,” lie j j said. "If it were we would be compcll-j I ed to recreate it. We cannot have nations utterly unbridled and seady fori j war at a moment's notice to destroy j | civilisation." Lord Cecil wili receive an honorary j doctorate from Columbia University j to-morrow.