STRONGER LEAGUE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 277, 23 November 1936, Page 7

STRONGER LEAGUE

Bringing Back Great Nations STRESSING THE BENEFITS BRITISH POLICY [British Official Wireless] RUGBY, Nov. 20. I In the course of a speech at Leeds, I the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Neville Chamberlain, in a brief reference to foreign affairs, said that the strongest interest of Britain was in the preservation of peace, and the League of Nations was still the foundation of the Government’s policy. But the League had suffered some rude shocks. They had to realise that the League, with the great nations the United States, Germany, and Japan standing outside and Italy aloof, was no longer capable of preserving the peace of the world, whatever it might become in the future. Britain’s policy was in the first place to try to strengthen the League in the only way in which it could be made stronger—by bringing back these great nations. They ought to try to make it easier for them to come back by showing that the League was not just a clamp to hold down everything as it was to the end of time, but that it did contain within itself means by which legitimate ' grievances arising out of the existing situation could be ventilated, discussed, and if possible removed by ! peaceful means.