LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23437, 28 February 1938, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

VIEWS AT COUNCIL MEETING (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, Feb. 5, The High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, returned from a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations to-day encouraged at the weight of opinion which still strongly supports the ideals for which the League stands. “ Every State represented expressed faith in the principles of the League.” he said. “There was certainly some difference of opinion about what action member States should take in given circumstances. The recent failure of the League to take the full steps set out in the Covenant has induced, in some States, an inclination to reduce the obligations of the Covenant to the extent to which members are prepared to go. “ An interesting comment on this view was made by the representative of Czechoslovakia, We had never fully put the provisions of the Covenant into operation, he said But the fact that we had fallen short of what was hoped was no reason for amending the Covenant Was there any person who could claim to have fully conformed with the Ten Commandments? Yet it had never been advocated that the commandments should be amended to the standard which we were likely to obey.” Before returning from Geneva Mr Jordan attended the third session of the committee set up to consider the application of the principles of the Covenant. It was devoted to a preliminary examination of Lord Cranborne’s report on the participation of all States in the League.