LEAGUE SANCTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 5

LEAGUE SANCTIONS.

New Zealand Favours Maintenance. BUT YIELDS TO MAJORITY VIEW. STATEMENT BY SIR J. PARR AT GENEVA. NEGUS ASKING FOR LOAN. LONDON, July 2. Outstanding speeches on the third day of the meeting of the League Assembly were those of Mr. S. M. Bruce (Australia), Sir James Parr (New Zealand), and Mr. E. A. de Valera (Irish Free State). Otherwise it was a day of small Powers. Again only one voice was raised against the dropping of sanctions. On the previous day. it was Mr. te Water’s, and Sir Janies Parr’s. There is a wide divergence of views as to how the Covenant should be altered. Many speakers remain to be heard. Meanwhile the Drafting Committee will consider resolutions and suggestions which the delegations are submitting with a view to a vote by the Assembly.

The French delegation has drafted a resolution establishing a specjal committee to study all proposals for reform of the Covenant and suggesting procedure for immediate application of economic and financial sanctions in case of aggression. The resolution to be submitted to the Assembly must record the lifting of sanotions, and probably it will contain a declaration of non-recognition of the annexation of Abyssinia. The Negus has tabled a resolution asking for a loan from the League of £10,000,000, and another calling on the Assembly to proclaim that it will not recognise the annexation. Ras Nasibu, in a covering note, says that the Emperor is doing this in order to permit a frank expression by a majority of members of the League. Sir James Parr said that New Zealand favoured maintenance or intensification of sanctions, but in view of a majority of the League members favouring suspension New Zealand would acquiesce. Sir James advocated that the League be made universal, and suggested that this reform be discussed at the September meeting of the Assembly, to Which the nations of the world should be invited. Mr. de Valera said that as the representative of a small nation which had been the victim of aggression and dismemberment, he appreciated the warning from Haile Selassie that the League should face the fact that financial and economic sanctions would only be effective if the Powers were willing to support them with military sanctions and accept the risk of war. Peace in Europe depended on the will of the big Powers and the nature of the sacrifices they were prepared to make. Dr. Munch said that Denmark was not opposed to the lifting of sanctions 1 but she was opposed, to recognition of Italy s annexation of Abyssinia and fully supported Argentina on that subject. ‘We cannot allow a country to disappear as a State/’ he said, “solely because it is occupied by a foreign “■“Y, even though the occupation has obliged the Government to depart.” Dr. Motta said that Switzerland supported the removal of sanctions. The Assembly adjourned. The Council will meet in camera this evening presumably to discuss the Danzig difficulties.