LEAGUE OF THE NATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 7

LEAGUE OF THE NATIONS.

SUPPORT OF M. VENIZELOS.

ENDING SECRET TREATIES.

Australian and' N.Z. Cable Association. (R«cd. 9.20 p.m. ) NEW YORK, Deo. 21.

The Paris correspondent of the Chicago Daily News interviewed M. Venizeloe, Prime Minister of Greece, who said: "We must have a League of Nations. The question of the freedom of the seas could bo settled if assurances were given by Britain that the right of blockade will bo maintained only against opponents of the laws of the League of Nations. There may bo an international fleet. I favour the League having legislative, judicial and executive powers. If a League is formed I assume secret treaties will be abrogated. When the Allied' Council at Versailles agreed to Mr. Wilson 14 points all secret treaties were abrogated automatically."

It is considered that M. Venizelos referred to the Treaty of London, promising Italy the Adriatic lands if she would join the Allies.

GERMAN ADVOCACY.

VON BERNSTORFF'S VIEWS.

(Reed. 7.45 p.m.) NEW YORE. Dec. 21. The Berlin correspondent of the United Press interviewed Count von Bernstorff, former German Ambassador at Washington. He would not say a word about German propaganda in the United States. He said the German people were overwhelmingly awaro that the salvation of Germany and tho entire world lay in the League of Nations and the principles laid down by Mr. Wilson. Men prominent in German Government circles, including himself, Herr Haase. Herr Ebert, and Prince Maximilian of Baden, had formed a German League of Nations Society to further the formation of tho League.