ITALY AND GREECE.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15356, 3 October 1923, Page 5

ITALY AND GREECE.

LEAGUE COVENANT BROKEN.

DANGER OP SELF INTEREST.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, October 1

The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Allen, interviewed on his return from Geneva, said the outstanding feature of the Fourth League of Nations Assembly was the shadow of the crisis between Italy and Greece. ‘VThere can be no question," he said, “ that Italy throw the covenant to the winds. There was no excuse for Italy’s action. She broke her word and flouted the League. So much concern was felt in the Assembly that the delegates requested the Council for a statement on the question. It is significant that this statement, to which all members of the council, including the Italian, agreed, was largely a reiteration of a numbeV of articles of the covenant which Italy had broken. The League had a dreadful shock. I doubt if it has recovered yet. Ido not believe a blockade of economic pressure is feasible, but the League Is an organisation which may create a healthy public conscience, therefore it is desirable that it should be fostered. There is a danger, however, of the League being used for propaganda and of grouping; the nations for their own interests, of which there was unmistakable evidence at this Assembly. It is essential that the delegates should think more of world-wide interests than of their own national interests.”/