"STAND BY THE LEAGUE"
" There is nothing more important in the world to-day than to stand by the League of Nations and to work unremittingly to make it what its founder intended it to be," writes Mr J. A. Spender, in the Yorkshire Observer. "The troubles of these times will pass, and then it will be all-important td have at hand and in good repair an institution \vhieh will be able to confirm and stabilise world peace. We shall only get Germany back into the League if .she ceases to sufPer from a sense of grievance, and the League ought to be the instrument of redressing her grievancss, so far as they are just. Germany's grievance is against all the nations who were parties to the Treaty of Versailles and are now members of the League, and these nations should go.to meet them jointly and use the machinery of the League for that purpose. ' Here we have the germs of a constructive policy for establishing peace and making the League the instrumenfc of real 'coUective security'. ....... . . . ' .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 4
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