DAY WILL COME

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 9

DAY WILL COME

LEAGUE OF NATIONS STILL RALLYING POINT GERMANS DID NOT WA)(IT WAR (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday “There have been achievements in the past and there have been disappointments, but the League of Nations remains the rallying point of international co-operation.” This view was expressed by Mr R. J. F. Boyer, Australian delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations, v/hen he arrived by the Mariposa on his way back to Australia. He said the efficiency of the League lay more in prevention than intervention. He did not think Britain would ask for intervention, but believed the real day of the League would come, through .perhaps a different form and constitution. The smaller nations of the world looked to it for guidance.

Mr Boyer added that nobody could say how long the war would last, as the situation was changing rapidly. It was felt that the future depended on Russia’s “tie up” with Germany. If those forces definitely fused the situation would become more involved.

Just before the outbreak of the war Mr Boyer was in Germany. He said the mass of the people did not want war, but were dominated by propaganda. There was feeling of loyalty to Hitler for improving the economic position but they feared how far he would go and realised the danger of his expansion policy.