RALLYING POINT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 5

RALLYING POINT

LEAGUE OF NATIONS REAL DAY WILL COME AUSTRALIAN OPINION GERMAN-SOVIET PACT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “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. RJ. F. Boyer, an Australian delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations, when 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 that Britain would ask for intervention, but he believed the real day of the League would come though, perhaps, with a different form and constitution. The little nations of the world looked to the League for guidance, Mr. Boyer added. Nobody could say how long the war would last as the situation was changing rapidly. It was felt 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 Gei - man people did not want war, but were dominated by propaganda. There was a feeling of loyalty to Herr Hitler for improving the economic position but they feared how far he would go, and realised the danger of his expansion policy.