SUPPORT FOR LEAGUE
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Nov. 13. “If there is any time in the world's history when we should not be splitting pacifist hairs, that time is now, when the League of Nations is light ing for its existence,” said Rev. Dr. E. N. Merrington, master of Knox College, Dunedin, in speaking to-day at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. At the conclusion of a debate the Assembly pronounced itself as being in complete accord with’ the mea.sures taken by the League in dealing *;th the Italo-Abyssinian war, and welcomed as a step in the direction of establishing a new order of international relations and collective security for the nations of the world, Sir Samuel Hoare’s declaration at Geneva that the British Government would support an inquiry into the problem of making freely available to all industrial countries according to their needs, the raw materials of the cc-lonial and mandated territories.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 268, 14 November 1935, Page 9
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