PACT AND COVENANT.
ESTABLISHING HARMONY.
BRITAIN ACCEPTS PRINCIPLE.
THE LEAGUE NOTIFIED, rorflclal Wireless.) (Received February 20, 1-30 p.m.) RUGBY, February 19. Mr A. Henderson, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated in rep y a question in the Housed Commons that the Government had informed Ihe Secretary-General of the League that they continued to support heartedly the principle^involved m he proposal to bring tne covenant of thLeague into harmony with the Pact Paris, and they were ready to jo with other members of the League In accepting the amendments pu fmward by the first Committee of the leceni Assembly, subject to a P roVls .° m JJf_ t the ratification of these amendments on behalf of the United Kingdom will be made dependent on the ent y into force of the general treaty for, the re duction and limitation of f As regards the general position of ° mer TlTh "“or Vitions thellinistc'r “Xd The Conclusion's reached on this subject during ,the Imperial Conference. J and said their Governm nts would doubtless address the secie tary-General of the League in a similar sense.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18258, 20 February 1931, Page 8
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