IDEALS OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20928, 6 January 1938, Page 12

IDEALS OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS

GENERAL SMUTS ATTACKED IN GERMANY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, January 4. The “Boersen Zeitung" sharply criticises General Smuts for his Geneva broadcast saying: "It is presumptuous for him to maintain that the dead in the Great War laid down their lives for the ideal of the League of Nations. We must protect the memory of the German dead who rest in foreign soil from this assumption, especially when we can recall that General Smuts, when he attacked the German colonies in the Great War, was actuated less by the ideiffs of the League of Nations than sheer covetousness, as experiences have shown in the House of Commons and the French Chamber of Deputies. There does not exist more fanatical or more irresponsible agitators for war than the enthusiasts of the League of Nations." Outline of Ideals In his broadcast address General Smuts said the League of Nations simply carried into world affairs the outlook of liberal and democratic society, which was one of the great achievements in human advancement. Perhaps that was the real reason why the new dictators objected to it."