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OPINIONS OF SIR JOSEPH WARD

SCHEME LESS CUMBERSOME THAN EXPECTED. Paris, February: 16. Sir Joseph Ward, discussing tho league, said:—"Everyone must agree without hesitation' that tho fundamental need in the peace settlement is definite machinery for the prevention of a recurrence of tho great world tragedy. An honest effort must be made to construct international means for avoiding war. The covenant certainly represents the best and most honest thought on the niattoe. It is not free . from defects, but it provides all the principles for a substantial foundation for international co-operation. It is less cumbersome than expected, with enough elasticity to permit of general improvement and evolution. The article dealing with tho future admisieon of the enemy States is explicit regarding the necessary safeguards. Many of the articles represent drastic restrictions on the previous freedom of enterprise, but tho league should succeed in maintaining a general assent to them. As regadds the mandatories the delegates must accept tho system. It is impossible to have a league without a mandatory system. If each be given a thorough trial tho experiment should never be worse than tolerable. Those with an intimate knowledge of the South Pacific necessarily favour British ■ control because it develops the natives and gives them liberty.' We need not fear. The mandatory clause will inevitably lead to a desire by the natives for free absorption in the neighbouring British communities, where they get a full measure of justice and equal opportunities." Sir Joseph Ward added that the alternative to the scheme was ruination and Bolshevism. . Ho did -.not regard tho ■league as oreating a supernatural State. Indeed, there was nothing in it .preventing the proper upkeep of the ■ British NavyiT-fUnited- Ser.rice.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7

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OPINIONS OF SIR JOSEPH WARD Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7

OPINIONS OF SIR JOSEPH WARD Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7

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