LEAGUE OF NATIONS
INSPIRING MESSAGE FROM KING. LONDON, January 12. The King telegraphed to a mass meet ing of the League of Nations’ Union at the Albert Hall that there was every reason to he thankful for what the League of Nations had accomplished in the first year of its life. Much would depend in the future on the support and confidence which were assured its members by the people they represented. The nations must be true to the faith that in the league lay a sure guarantee of peace, and only in the fulfilment of those high ideais could the generations to come be saved from the recurrence of a desolating war. His Majesty added : “ I look forward hopefully, believing that this faith wiii appeal to the men and women of the British Empire.” REAL ECONOMY. LONDON, January 15. Lord Robert Cecil, speaking at Hitchin, said that the League of Nations was costing Britain £50,000 a year. The next big battleship would cost £9,000,000, and if we could save the building of one battleship we would save ten times our whole contribution to the League of Nations. This was real economy.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 18
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