THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 7

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

. published oh Friday Naming \'\ l cablegram from Geneva which', states * [ the number of treaties registered .-.to date j, with the League of. Nations headquarters I fy Wi. mrfortimatit). an . * O,J0 ,J is'.omitted from "thenomfrer,- Boajjiaag s it appear that to date 3C> .treaties hava r been so /registered: ' The -number, ot * course, .should read. 300. ,- This -is a 1 highly significant cablegram. It "has been . everywhere recognised that secret diploms acy, with its constent oppcttumti'es "and - incitements to hidden intrigue, has in the I past been on? of the main factors making . for war. This was frankly recognisea . by the nations themsefyes in the Treaty t'% * or Versailles 5 and a clause to r defU with * this evil was expressly, framed and pnt s i'ato' the Covenant oi\ the League of a Nations, The clause provides for.the I f registering' publicly at the headquarters of /-•; u tha League' of all treaties entered * s the nations which are members of the jjj League. It will be news.to many, though r not to those who have followed the pro- » gress of the League closely, that so large | a measure of success has been achieved t by the League hi Ibis aspect of its oper*- - tions. It is : highly ehcouraghigV also, to ? observe,, the steadily?growjng '. 3 of thel. nations in, the 'The i registering by them... of .300" Creaties is 5 evidence enough that tbex.^evwcra:.-are . j coming increasingly to recognise "7ri the 1 League, not merely the beautiJul dream - of an idealist, but aii instrument of great r and effective practical, utility in inter- | national relationships). It is, for instance, » a fact ~n6t sufficiently known ithKfc-'Great * Britain has registered publicly the f League of, v treaty*/, she.: baa -' r entered into since Versames ";bwmght the * war' to a close. ■" "Awhileago I though- not "yet admitted ■<_&s' .a mem* t ber of the League, promised fXta&a* 3 lar action/ The ref6rred^tb J announces that she;-has made ;sar." . „ good by registering a batch of tlO^treatSes. - It is also^exceedingly ' that Japan has registered:' twoi' important treaties arising from iiKe-WasWDgtopGon.- '. fVren'ce namelyj "dealing with Yap arid Shahtuiig.-"' . I how.'vast an, achievement; ji>-iv and, how . full of influence,.for;, the ....peat®: of -then . world, that ~in>a. period •«* distracted as > ' the years- since • the ..war,";3oo trseties* \ every one'of which in^otbOT-da^..would i have- been &% v . orice,. the result arid ;the * cause <)f ceaseless,iiiferigue aniJ,,,cot(riter- \ intrigue, have mfltieiads <>i!-.the . League of Nations -been and!;rPiiblidy r«glste>pe3?:'''OQflr; askai ."i-alsa, tils question ...Lord Balfour' recently/ asked: "■ Were League"-of N^tiorisfabcJiiaHecl' to-morrcw," what body' either fejriats 'or u rould be found which corild'""do. things?" /','€jßCtt-Ji Tbcxxm*; \ St. LukeVManse,";... ./",-,-. . ■;•'.' Bemuera, August 18, 1922. ••■'■*■' ' ' - ■ ■-■■•■« :r