LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160812, 20 November 1920, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

DISCUSSIONS AT GINETA

ADMISSION OF ENEMY STATES,

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received Nov. 20, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 19.

The Australian Press correspondent at Geneva reports that the main interest in the commission centres round that dealing with admissions to the League with its bearing on enemy States. The echo of the discussion in the Australian Parliament has reached Geneva. As a matter of fact the question of Germany’s admission does not arise because she has not applied to join, but the question may crop up indirectly. Whatever may be decided re Austria and Bulgaria can scarcely be taken as a precedent. The correspondent says his inquiries “indicate apparently that there is little feeling against admitting the minor belligerents, but opinion in regard to Germany is more reserved.”

LABOUR MEMBER’S

REMARKS

Received Nov. 20, .12.10 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 19

Mr Barnes resumed the debate on the Council’s report and said he believed he voiced the opinion of the working classes of Britain when he declared that former enemy countries should be admitted as soon as possible. Not only did he believe this was the opinion of British workers, but also that of the workers of the world. The industrial instability of Europe was largely due to the peoples being divided into jtwo camps. He assumed the enemy would do their duty under the Peace Treaty, but that was an affair of the Allied Powers not of the League. The latter’s duty was to secure such co-operation as would ensure the peace of the world. Mr Barnes’ speech did not arouse any comment from the speakers who continued the debate.