STRENGTH OF SANCTIONS
INCREASING PRESSURE FALLING OFF IN TRADE EFFECT DOVNI) TO CROW (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.15 p.m. RUOBY, April 1.5. An impression of the potential strength of concerted economic action against aggression is created by figures-published al Geneva yesterday showing, first, the effects of the League sanctions on trade with Italy has increased now that there has been an opportunity to study the report of experts in detail, and tiie argument is now heard that critics of the League Powers who, in recent months, have declared the measures so far taken to enforce the League Covenant were ineffective, will 'be compelled to recant.
The incomplete returns for February are the most significant, for they indicate an acceleration of the fallofif* in trade as the influence of exemptions allowed to goods in transit wanes. This cumulative effect, it is pointed out in the press, is bound to grow, so long as the existing sanctions are maintained, while the temporary relief obtained by the Coven-ant-breaking Slate by means of inflated trade in anticipation of sanctions, and before they came into force, muni soon be exhausted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 6
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