GREAT PROGRESS OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The League’s settlement of the Mosul trouble marks the great acceleration of the progress made by the League of Nations. It is the last of three great/'most troublesome settlements—the Greco-Bulgarian, the Locarno, the Mosul. In the beginning the world looked on at the League’s work in philosophic and, slightly contemptuous doubt. An active section railed with venomous ridicule. To-day these despairs have fled, and hope reigns aligost supreme. • Austen Chamberlain's song of triumph over the deposit with the League of the Locarno Pact was the first definite outburst of hope. His only critic was the Bolshevik Minister, who protested on the ground that the Locarno Pact is a restricted League ot Nations intended to suppress Russian progress, upsetting the balance of power, and sure to end in a great general war. ' But Mr Chamberlain has no difficulty in proving that no one is trying to balance the power in Europe. The new belief is in practising peace among nations on the basis of goodwill. Its recognised principle is that it is better to- practice peace than to leave peace to theories and big words’. If Russia insists on practising the Marxism which justifies the massacre of all unconverted opponents, Russia will never understand the real meaning of Locarno, Ana Locarno will create a barrier over which this Marxism can never pass.
The League’s success at Mosul is striking. It checks fanatical murdering by \the Turks; it makes a just boundary for Iraq; It makes manifest the intention of the League and of Britain to make Iraq an independent, self-governing, self-defending country before many years—a fate Vastly different from the horrid centuries of the Turkish, misrule finally ended. Grey of Fallodon, the best ot the diplomats, the man who has done more than any other to prepare the way for the League of Nations, has taken the opportunity to speak with force in favour of the League. It is, he declares, the authority with exclusive domination and having time for peaceful guidance on a great scale on the basis of goodwill. When Iraq, protected by Britain with the support of the League, is able to enter the League with independence, the cause of peace will be greatly strengthened. 9
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12323, 18 December 1925, Page 6
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