LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 25 August 1936, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

COVENANT PRINCIPLES FRENCH VIEWPOINT (Geneva News issued by the Prime. Minister’s Department.) GENEVA, Aug. 22. # The French Government has just communicated to the Secretary-Gen-eral of the League of Nations its reply to the wish expressed by the Assembly on July 4 that the Governments forward proposals designed to perfect the application of the Covenant principles. The French reply reiterates M. Blum’s affirmative on France’s attachment to the system of collective security, and considers it necessary to prevent abuse of the unanimity rule with regard to Article XI. and with regard to Article XVI., which provides for repressive action to ensure a closer conection between measures of economic and financial pressure, and the employment of military means for taking into consideralion the system of regional agreements. MILTON’S COTTAGE SURROUNDINGS SAFEGUARDED LORD WAKEFIELD’S GIFT [British Official Wireless] Received Aug. 24, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 23. The trustees of poet John Milton’s cottage at Chaifort, St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, recently issued an appeal for £l2OO to enable them to purchase an adjoining piece of land threatened by builders. They now announce that Lord Wakefield has expressed his desire to purchase this land and present it to the trustees as a means of associating with Milton’s cottage the ward of Bread Street, City of London, of which he is an aiderman and in which Milton was born.