THE LEAGUE IN 1935

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE LEAGUE IN 1935

SEPARATE THE COVENANT? WORLD PARLIAMENT NEEDED. With the withdrawal of Japan from the League the time is opportune .to consider League membership and its relations to the Peace Treaties, says the Children’s Newspaper. Germany, not originally a member, was invited to join, accepted the invitation, but has resigned. America refused to authorise President Wilson to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Russia,- not originally a member, has since, joined. Thus America, Germany, Japan are all outside the League. Their united population is about 300,000,00 C and it is all-important that they should be associated With it. ‘ . The League Covenant was incorporated iti the four Peace Treaties, and is thus directly associated with them. It is this, which makes it appear to Germany that the Covenant is part and parcels of. a treaty which all the world now sees': to be unfair. ’ ’ ■■' '/Z. Herr Hitier is urging that the Covenant should be dissociated from the Treaty'of Versailles, and if this were done it would probably not only bring Germany back to the League but plight induce America to reconsider her refusal to join. . ' - ' The proposal to dissociate the League from the Ti’eaty was suggested in Eng-. land, in. Italy, and' in America before Herr Hitler urged it, and it must eventually be adopted, for the reason that the League is permanent while the Treaty of Versailles is passing. As things are, the League’s part in affairs is subsidiary to sectional pacts and sectional conferences. Statesmen go on missions, hold conferences in secret, and make sectionail bargains, as. though the League did not exist.' ?, A different position would exist if the. League included all nations, was free from association with the dictated Peace Treaties, and sat as a World Parliament in continuous session.