IRELAND AND LEAGUE.
■ .*, APPLYING THE COVENANT. . IMPLICATIONS OF REFUSAL. Renter. PARIS. Dec. 18. The press is discussing the British I Government's refusal to admit that j Article 18 of the Covenant of the League { of Nations applies to the treaty between i Britain and Ireland. The Echo de Paris says a double < dilemma is presented. Either the British i Dominions are independent Powers, cn- ! titled to speak and vote, in their own ; name, or arc satellites of Britain, whose i voices and votes must he merged in the I voice and vote of the Imperial Cabinet. I But what wt izld Geneva say if Germany claimed to c der the League escorted by i her 13 States and even by Austria, under I some treaty of alliance drawn up on a : British model? The lesson of the whole , affair is that, constituted as she is at. I present, Britain cannot, lend herself to i the experiment of the League of Nations ' accomplishing its specific task, however j (small, save at the peril of her Empire. I '- ' ~ "~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 11
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176IRELAND AND LEAGUE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 11
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