LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
GREAT POWER FOR GOOD. PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. The great power for good possessed by the League of Nations was stressed by Mr. T. Bloodworth in an address on the work of the league, given at a luncheon of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The president, Mr. A. M. Seaman, presided. Mr. Bloodworth said the great problem facing the statesmen of to-day was unemployment. There were as many men unemployed to-day as there were men under arms during the Great War. Economic difficulties and unrest brought out more than ever before the interdependence of nations. It was a mission of the league to develop conscious co-operation for international good. A statement had come from Geneva that the nations were complaining of the high cost involved by the league, Mr. Bloodworth said. New Zealand's contribution was £12,000, but if the league succeeded in raising the standard of living in backward countries the contribution would be repaid one hundred times over. If the peoples of India and other Asiatic countries lived on a higher level an excellent market would be opened for the products of other countries. There was no evidence of waste by the league and there should be none.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20981, 18 September 1931, Page 10
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