SANCTIONS COULD WORK
.Viscount Cecil's View U.S. & REORGANISED LEAGUE (Received 20, & 45 a.m.) NEW YOBK, Nov. 19. Asked Ms'opinion of the prospects of World peace, after he heard that' he hado bben awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Viscount Cecil replied: "They are materially improved by this award." ' I n an interview Viscount Cecil suggested that the Brussels Conference shoald send a formal request to Japan to cease aggressive warfare in Chlna as a preliminary to coercive economic action. He thought a comparatively small grOup of nations could make sanetions effective. It is repofted that Viscount Cecil came here to learn the probahle United States attitude toward joining a reorganised League of Nations and cooperating in applying economic sanctions against aggressor nations. He denied, however, that his mission was offieial, and insisted that he came in order to address American societies on world peace. "The world must choose between an organisation of peace-loving Powers and a return to the system provailing piior to 1914," he said.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 5
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