"COLLECTIVE SECURITY"
'^When it eame to aotion, Great Britain alone had the power to restrain Japan, and Great Britain alone showed any zeal in the cause of Abyssinia against Italy. That, if we face the facts, was 'collective security' in the only two serious test oases in which it has been invoked, The Labour Party have suggested that, if they had been in power, they would have gone to all lengthg on these occasions, even to the length of flghting single-handed in the cause of 'oollective seeurity.' I doubt if they would have done so, but there is clearly something wrong when we have even to think of flghting single-handed for a system called 'oolleotive.' I do not think our Government can be blamed for deolining to bear such a burden. What is needed now ia not to revive reorimination on these matters, hut to avoid repeating these mistakeB, as we may easily do if we go on talking and thinking of 'collective security,' as if it were something in full operation." —-Mr J. A. Spender. , — ' g.' "-w
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 122, 9 June 1937, Page 4
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178"COLLECTIVE SECURITY" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 122, 9 June 1937, Page 4
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