LEAGUE OF NATIONS
"BEST HOPE OF PEACE"
SIR R, GARRAN'S VIEWS
LONDON, April 21
"I am satisfied that the League is our best, if not our only, hope of ultimate peace and security in the world," declared Sir Robert Garran in an address to the University branch of the League of Nations Union at the University yesterday.
Perseverance was necessary. Sir Robert Garran added, because the means of doing J)arm had grown out of all proportion to the will to do good. Sir Robert Garran said the League had' been the means, on at least tour occasions, of stopping wars which had already begun. These admittedly were regarded as "small wars," but each might have started a, big conflagration. On many occasions, also, it had been able to settle international disputes which had in them the seeds of conflict. It provided a kind of a club at which leading representatives of the different countries could discuss international questions quite informally. This was a tremendous advance in international diplomacy.
"I believe that the League has already become absolutely indispensable to the world," Sir Robert Garran concluded. "If this method of conciliation was to be scrapped. J believe that not a week would pass before the necessity for ils i('-establishment presented it-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19311, 29 April 1937, Page 5
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