INTERNATIONAL FEUDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16833, 8 September 1922, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL FEUDS.

WORK FOR THE LEAGUE. LORD R. CECIL SPEAKS OUT By Telegranh—Press Association— ffoDvrfcrb* Australian and N Z Cable Association. LONDON. September 6. The Australian Press correspondent at Geneva states that Lord Robert Cecil, discussing the Council’s annual report, made an impassioned appeal far increased activities on the part of the League in promotion of settlements of international feuds. H** admitted that the League’s province was to i>romote a new peace and not to clear up old feuds and legacies of the Great War, nevertheless he contended it was impossible for the League to ignore international quarrels which delayed peace. instancing the Graeco-T urkish war, concerning which there had been international negotiations but no appeal to the League to intervene. Lord Robert Cecil considered the League should have carried out such negotiations or they should have been conducted by other organisations under the supervision of the League. Similarly, in regard to Russia, he regretted that the League had not intervened in a more decisive manner in connection with the famine. Had the League done so it might have mitigated its horrors and opened the door to the renewal of intercourse, between Russia and the other nations without raising political or economic questions, which had defied settlement at Genoa arid The Hague. The Russian and Austrian conditions were only a part of the economic, crisis affecting the whole world. Competent authority had stated that the fall of the mark had by no means reached its limit. Tt was only a question of a few months before the financial situation in Germany would approximate the Austrian situation. and this would react, not only upon the rest of Europe. but upon every country in the world.