NEW WOMEN'S CLUB

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23177, 25 October 1938, Page 2

NEW WOMEN'S CLUB

SITUATION IN EUROPE ADDRESS BY MR. W. T. G. AIREY An address dealing with the League of Nations as it was to-day, was given by Mr. W. T. G. Airey to members of the New Women's Club recently. Mrs. W. B. Darlow presided. Mr. Airey said that until the last few weeks it had been felt that the League could play a great part in securing world peace, but that popular belief had been dissipated by the actions taken recently by the main Powers of Europe. The smaller Powers, which had been waiting for the support of the greater to be given to the League and then to rally to its leadership, had found it necessary for their own safety to scuttle for leadership and safety to Hitler. Everything that a war could have produced had been handed to Hitler without demur. He had succeeded with one bluff after another and with the smaller Powers drifting in to his orbit, the Franco-Soviet Pact and the hoped-for Four-Power Pact could be of little use now. The slender promises given in exchange for colossal concessions to Hitler had no air of finality and there seemed no certainty that war was permanently averted. it was unanimously decided that a letter be sent to Mrs. C. Stewart, congratulating her on her election to Parliament for Wellington West.