LEAGUE REFORM
CANNOT HE DEFKKKEP. “Refonp of the League of Nations is a matter which can no longer be deferred,” says the ''Scotsman." "It is desirable that the Five-Power Conference should be prepared for early, so that the attitude of Germany and Italy to the League be defined. With out. their adherence, it cannot function, effectively, but, as Mr Eden stated, there is a great divergence of opinion as to the direction reform Should take. One extreme, he said, wanted the League to be shorn of its coercive and oppressive conditions, and he believed that its members should be under no covenanted obligations as between agressor and victim; the other extreme wanted military assistance to the victim of aggression to be universal and automatic. He was not in a position to give the considered views of the Government, but he said that they would not favour either extreme,”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 4
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148LEAGUE REFORM Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 4
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