NO DEFINITE SCHEME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 7

NO DEFINITE SCHEME

SAVING THE LEAGUE BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS REFORM MEASURES LEFT TO ASSEMBLY. .By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, June 4. It is evident from discussions bct.veen the heads of delegations at the Imperial Conference concerning reform of the League that neither England nor the Dominions is able ot submit any definite scheme whereby the League might be saved. The meeting was held fin the Cabinet room. Mr. M. J. Savage and Mr. W. Nash represented New Zealand. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, made a frank statement of the League’s failures, including Manchukuo and Abyssinia, and outlined the attitude of foreign Powers, revealing wide divergencies over Article 16 and the general issue of sanctions. He declared that the smaller States want to make the Covenant more binding, while some of the major Powers, particularly those which are not prepared to fulfil the obligations of sanctions, want the Covenant to be less binding. The delegates fully agreed that the League is worth preserving as one of the definite hopes for world peace. It is gathered that Mr. Savage’s views have been among the most outspoken and that he vigorously advocated a stronger League. The Australian Associated Press agency understands that the Conference is framing a resolution emphasising the unity of Britain and the Dominions for the maintenance of the League, but that measures for reform will be left to the League Assembly when it meets in September to consider the report of a committee on the subject LEADERSHIP OF NATIONS CHANCE FOR EMPIRE NEED FOR CONCERTED POLICY. LONDON, June 4. “The leadership of the nations is vacant. Let the British Empire take it. No other nation would be as welcome to the democracies throughout the world,” declared Mr. D. Lloyd George, M.P., in a broadcast to the Empire. He urged the necessity for British foreign policy being preconcerted assistance to the Dominions. If the Prime Ministers were unable to attend more frequently meetings of the Imperial Cabinet, they should send responsible Ministers. Most, if not all of the recent humiliations when British leadership of the League had proved futile and when the League itself had been almost utterly discredited, would have been averted if the Empire as a whole had had a concerted nolicv.