A WORLD COURT
GENERAL SMUTS’S HOPE. UNITED STATES A MEMBER. (United Press association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 4. (Received Jan. 5, at IL3O p.m.) General Smuts, in two addresses today, voiced the hope that the United States would become a member of the World Court in 1930, and declared that the signing of root protocols was “ one of the most hopeful steps of recent years in the cause of world peace.” In a speech before combined organisations celebrating the tenth anniversary of the League of Nations, he said: “As sure as we sit here to-day there will be a time when ail your efforts and the cause you stand for will be triumphant all over the world. I know we cannot fail. If we failed the foundations of the world would shake. We must win, and should go on' fighting,”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 7
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142A WORLD COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 7
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