LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 13

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

APPLICATION OF IRAK.

POSSIBLE BRITISH SUPPORT.

MANDATE WOULD LAPSE.

Australian and N.Z. , Press Association. (Received September 19, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19,

Tho Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent hints that tho Government shortly will agree to support Irak's application for admission to tho League of Nations, of which the late Conservative Government did not approve.

This would lead to the automatic lapse of tho mandate, which might be followed by a financial and defence agreement between Britain and Irak.

WORK FQR PEACE.

VISCOUNT CECIL'S PLEA.

NEED FOR CO-OPERATION.

Australian Press Association—United Service (Received September 20, 1.15 a.m.) GfcNEVA, Sept. 19..

Viscount Cecil encountered opposition when he reopened controversial subjects at a meeting of tho Disarmament Commission of the League of Nations. He wanted tho commission to consider limitations of materials, personnel and trained reserves, Army and Navy Budgets, also international control and enforcement of a disarmament treaty.

In an impassioned peroration, Lord Cecil said: " If the draft treaty includes no reduction or limitation of material wo shall be presenting to a hungering world not bread but a stone —something of almost no practical value. There is no question that compulsion work must be done in collaboration and co-operation. "If any Power i 3 unprepared to take a substantial step then the others can only submit. This might bo th'o end of the disarmament scheme, which is the only direct and positive safeguard against war. It is the cornerstone of the edifice of peace."

MANDATES REPORT.

ADOPTION BY COMMITTEE.

CASE OF SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

Australian Press Association—United Service (Received September 19, 6.55 p.m.)

GENEVA. Sept. 18. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Parr, at to-day's meeting of the Sixth Committee of the Assembly of the League of Nations supported the chairman's view that the term " sovereignty," as applied to the South-west African mandate, should be eliminated. He said the expression was academic. That and tho term temporary " should bo discarded. Tho Italian, Canadian and South African delegates agreed with Sir James,

The committee adopted tho mandates report. . , v; J v . .

MENACED COUNTRIES.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

MATTER SHELVED AT GENEVA.

Australian Press Association—United Service

GENEVA, Sept. 18.

The Third Committee of the Assembly of the League of Nations to-day decided to postpone until 1930 consideration of the. draft convention for rendering financial assistance to States menaced with aggression. A resolution was carried that the convention was closely bound up with the problems of the definition of an aggressor, the prevention of war and the reduction of armaments.