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ATTACKS DEPLORED GUARDIAN OF WORLD PEACE SPEECH BY VISCOUNT GREY (United Press Assn.—Dy Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 7. Viscount Grey, presiding over a mass meeting of the League of Nations Union at the Albert Hall, deplored the attacks on the League arising out of the Far East trouble. He said Britain’s foreign policy must carry sentiments for the Dominions, who sided with the League. If Britain did not pursue the League policy its policy would be suspect to the Dominions and anti-Empirial. Despite the League’s non-success in restraining the combatants in the Far East, it remained invaluable to the peace of the world. If it disappeared disarmament and other questions requiring international action would have a much poorer chance. Japan resorted to force instead of putting her case before the other Powers, but a military success would not open Chinese markets. Lord Cecil said Japan alone resorted to violence. If the Assembly did not exert its powers to restore peace, its members would be regarded as accomplices of the aggressor. The League must repudiate the Japanese doctrine and reassert the obligations forbidding a nation to take the law into its own hands.
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Southland Times, Issue 21648, 9 March 1932, Page 5
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