THE LEAGUE'S CRITICS
4The League," said M. Avenol, secietary of t£e League of Nations, "has been wrongly attacked as ridiculous for asserting the principle of equality between States. In the first plaoe the Covenant does not speak Pf equality; it provides for unanimity and gives to each country a veto intended to protect it from having its rights and possesgions and its very existence voted away. Secondly, power and responsihility are, in praetice, proportionate to the real position of each country. The leadership of the Great Powers has. never been disputed. When they have chosen to lead, the League has pursued an active policy; when they remained quiet the League action has been paralysed hy the quarrels. of the Great PoAvers. The "real source of difficulty is the difference between two groups of States, the one unfettered by public criticism, the other hampered by that freedom of opinion that made it impossible for their Governments to stake the lives of their suhjects on a rash thr'ow."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 4
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