LEAGUE OF NATIONS
VIEWS OF A NEW ZEALAND EE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, January 12. Mr Arthur Atkinson, who has returned from an extended visit to England, speaking of the League of Nations, said that one certainly heard more about it than about the Imperial question proper, though the league w'as no longer regarded with the same optimism which it inspired two years ago. What seemed to be of great importance for us to realise on both sides of the world was that the work of the Imperial Conference had not really been superseded by anything that had been done or 4 could be done at Paris or Geneva. On the contrary, a united Empire was the strongest bulwark ol the league, and must remain so. The subject of the representation of the dominions on the league, which-, excited so much enthusiasm at the outset, had really contributed nothing to the solution of the Imperial problem, and might even hamper its solution. In form this representation might be said to cry, takiec disunity, and in effect it might do so unless we wore very careful not to make for disunion by the airing of domestic difficulties before an alien tribunal and by giving the Empire five foreign policies instead of one.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 20
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