AWAY FROM THE LEAGUE
The republics of Latin America are gradually drifting away from the League of Nations. The United States State Department had information re-, cently that Nicaragua would leave the League and that Honduras would depart on July 10. Gautemala quit Geneva on May 26, and Chile and Salvador have given the League the customary two years' advance notice of withdrawal. Paraguay left last year. Some years ago Brazil and Costarica representatives departed from Lake Geneva's shores. Of the 20 American republics originally belonging to the League, eight have resigned or are about to do so. Persons who are close to the State Department and who usually reflect the department's views say the "good neighbour" policy of the United States is one of the principal causes of the trend. They reason that the Latin-American nations, fearing the " Colossus of the North," joined the League in the hope that it would be a counterweight to the tremendous power of the United States. Now. it is explained, the United States has become less of a preoccupation in Latin America because of the good neighbour policy. Their fears allayed, the republics to the south feel they have less reason for continuing in the Geneva institution.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23577, 13 August 1938, Page 2
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