TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19913, 16 June 1936, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Is the League Defeated? > “ The League is not yet defeated. Sanctions have failed to do their work in time, but they are not Without effect. The figures of Italian trade published at Geneva this week demonstrate that. The future, for all the enthusiasm aroused by Marshal Badoglio's recent victories, is not so glittering for ltaly. She is deeply involved in Abyssinia and has five months of rain—an element singularly damp ing to ardour—before her, with the steady financial drain of a costly campaign still continuing. It is a test of endurance. If Italy for the sake of national uggrandisement can hold out longer against the cumulative pressure of sanctions than individual League States can support the relatively light sacrifices they are making for the sake of world order and security, then she will have to be saluted as the triumphant destroyer both of the Abyssinian Empire and the hope of a world~society. But the League States have at least not capitulated yet. If they hold on Italy must still ultimately come to tennS.”——The Spectator, London. A Solemn Compact

“ The conviction is growing among thoughtful people in America that if tho United States and Great Britain entered into :1 solemn eompm‘t to outlaw \\'nr anywhere on earth, they could very well succeed in their ohjcvtive. France would eagerly subscribe to such a compact. So would Russiu‘ All the Hitlers, Mussolinis, and Japanese militarists on earth would :heath their swords in the face of such a. compact. When peace was again restbred in the world, the mad race of armaments abandons-d and srivntists and philosophers could work peacefully and unafraid in a, world freed of the terrors of war, maybe we could make real progress in ordering the mats of this world.”~—-City Independent (North Carolina). USA.