LEAGUE OF NATIONS
—, « : FRENCH ANXIETY. REGARDING SUDDEN AGGRESSION. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) Received April 30, 8 p.m. PARIS, April 29. M. Bourgeois referred to the French amendment for strengthening the League’s pow’er against sudden military aggression. The French consider the League weak in this respect, JAPANESE DISAPPOINTMENT. A REJECTION OP RACIAL EQUALITY. (Australian ajid N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 30, 8 p.m. • jy !■ : « ■ I ‘ / i*; PARIS, April 29>-,v : Baron Makino, addressing the Plenary Council, regretted that the covenant did not enunciate the principle of racial equality, leaving the Governments concerned to devise in a fair spirit, means to meet it. If just and equal treatment is denied to certain nationals, it would have the significance of a certain reflection on their quality and status, and their faitli in the justice and the Wghteousness of future international intercourse between members of the League may be shaken. I’his will be detrimental to harmony and co-opera-tion," on which only the League can be securely built. The Japanese will not press the proposal at the moment, but the Japanese Government and people feel poignant regret at the failure to approve of a just demand. They will continue to insist on the adoption of the principle by the League in the future.
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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14050, 1 May 1919, Page 5
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