AMERICAN PLAN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21342, 11 May 1939, Page 10

AMERICAN PLAN

SOCIETY OF NATIONS American people are keenly interested in establishing a “Society of Nations.” as distinct from the League of Nations. This view was expressed by M. Louis Dolivet, secretary of the International Peace Campaign, at the conference of the Campaign’s General Council in London recently, when about 60 delegates were present from 17 countries, reports the “News Chronicle.” M. Dolivet has just returned from America and said that international affairs had produced there an expulsion of feeling against the totalitarian States. The American people were willing to support any action on the part of the Administration directed against the policies of the totalitarian States to the extent of providing food and war supplies to the democratic States should they become involved in war. Lord Cecil, who presided at the morning session, said that to-day’s fundamental issue vzas between the rule of law and that of the jungle in international affairs. There must be outside each country, he said, some tribunal to which appeal could be made to say whether a particular action was in accordance with international law and the principles of justice or not. “The fundamental thing is that we fight not for our interests or gain or prosperity, but for the establishment of the rule of law in international affairs. If we can really set that forward as the great policy of our respective countries we shall receive support from all over the world.” A resolution was passed declaring that while desiring the end of the cruelties ravaging Spain it protested against any pressure on the legitimate Government of Spain to induce it to surrender unconditionally. On China, a resolution demanded an embargo on arms and war material for Japan and an agreement by the Powers to refuse all imports from Japan.