LETTING DOWN THE EMPIRE
AUSTRALIAN- IN NEW YORK
NEW YOBK, Ctk December. Mi-. Brookes, Australian Trade Commissioner, who was the guest of honour at tho annual luncheon of the United States English-speaking Union at the Hotel Astor, in view of President Hoover's reference to the Court of International Justice iv his Congressional address, said:
Ever since the League Conference at the time Mussolini seized Corfu, we realised that the League cannot function properly until the United States becomes a member. Many in Australia believe that America let Australia and the entire British Empire down when it did not join the League— not deliberately, of course, but because of the governmental system of cheeks and balances, which required the Senate's consent. We knew nothing of those checks and balances, and could not have foreseen that the Senate would not pursue the lines followed by Mr. Wilson.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 11
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