FRENCH COMMENT ON LEAGUE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 6

FRENCH COMMENT ON LEAGUE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) I (Received Feb. 18, 2.20 p.m..) I PARIS, Feb. 16. I The Echo de Paris believes that the I League project represents the coming I struggle between two contending, conceptions — namely, a super-State absorbing part' of the sovereignty of States, and an alliance of equal independents, I associated for defence. The paper thinks , France insufficiently guarded m the absence of an international force. Le Journal regards the League as a formidable engine for the service of i peace so long as it is prepared swiftly to use its strength, but force is still subordinate to the decision to intervene at a moment of peril, that is, perhaps when it is too late. ' Le Gaiilois questions if an international force woiild strengthen France's securifcv, but poafcpones a definite opinion until details are available of what amounts , to the foundation of the new world. Other opinions regard the fate of annexations as sealed. President Wilsnn characterised Germany's colonial system as one of extermination, m order to get possession of helpless people's land. At the same time he impliedly lauded England's policy that many weak peoples beginning as colonies had been lifted into a sphere of self-government.