LEAGUE’S ACTION

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19716, 25 October 1935, Page 7

LEAGUE’S ACTION

COMMENDED BY PRIMATE. PROMISING FOR THE FUTURE. SIGNATORIES DID NOT SHRINK. (Official Wireless.) (Received Oct. 25, 12.45 a.m.) RUGBY, October 24. In the resumed debate on the the international situation In the House of Lords, the Arohblshop of Canterbury repudiated any hostility to Italy, for whloh he cherished the warmest feelings. It was neoessary to pay regard to Italy's needs, but his contention was that she should have brought her oase to the League of Nations and' not taken It Into her own hands. i The action ’taken by the League was promising. On the first occasion the signatories of the Covenant had been called upon to uphold it they had not shrunk. MR CHURCHILL’S SPEECH. MENACE OF GERMAN ARMING. / LEAGUE’S' POLICY APPROVED. A MEMORABLE EVENT. (Official Wireless.) (Received Oct. 25, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 24. The third day of the debate in the House of Commons on the international situation was opened with a speech by Mr Winston ’Churchill, who began by referring to ‘the progress of German re-armament. Whatever they thought they could not have any other anxiety comparable to the anxiety it caused. Compared with that, he regarded war between Italy and Abyssinia as a very small matter. It was on the basis of German re-armament that ’the dispute between Italy and the League must be considered, and in all the circumstances he thought the efforts which France had made to give effect to the League Covenant deserved warm recognition. Put House In Order.

He expressed sympathy with the Abyssinians in the invasion of their country, but said that now they had appealed 'to the League they must be made to put their house In order, so that the League could not be accused of taking one-sided action against Italy.

A great new fact In the International situation, Mr Ohurohlll declared, was that the League of Nations was alive and In action.

They were in the presence of a memorable event —the assertion of publlo law by 50 nations and its recognition by a State affected and the historic figure at 'the bead of that State. From Bhadow to Substance. The League of Nations had passed from shadow into substance, from rhetoric into reality. The structure had always been majestic tout hitherto shadowy, and it was now being clothed with power. They began to feel the beating of the pulse which might some day give a greater measure of strength and security to the whole world. What of tha Future?

In a striking passage Mr Uhurcnill asked the House not to suppose that the measures being taken against Italy were not the most formidable. They must not look only a month or two ahead. Where would the Italian dictator be this time next year?— He might be far into Abyssinia with an army of 250,000 men, wasting rapidly by guerilla warfare and disease, and all the 'time Italy was under the boycott and censure of praotically the whole world.

She would be blooding at every pore, with her gold reserves melting away, her prloea rising and her credit gone.

Mr Arthur Greenwood (Labour), charged the Government with using the international crisis to divert attention from the failure of its unemployment policy. Tire debate was not concluded.