PEACE LEAGUE FORCE
POWElfc BEHIND AN ECONOMIC BOYCOTT.
Lord Eryce, apeaking at the inauguration of the League of Nations Asspciatioa at Northampton recently said force must' be behind the league. . Of the two kinds of force— military arid economic-economic compulsion couI sisted in the application of a commercial ! boycott to an offending country, lne refusal t- a manufacturing country of raw materials and a market for its products would be a penalty which it would scarcely venture to defy. Such a method might often bo speedier than war, and nuite as effective. An economic boycott applied/in normal times oy a group of I nations fc. another wouW bo * means of provoking rather thau preventing war. Therefore those who talked of boycotting I Germany and Austria as eoon as the war "as ovw had tetter wait to see, how the war en-led- .. . ~ ~ ! The threat of economic war nugnt t>B a powerful weapon to exact just and necessary conditions ot peace in the coming treaty
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 14 November 1918, Page 6
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163PEACE LEAGUE FORCE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 14 November 1918, Page 6
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