LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
■tl3y Electric Telegraph—Cop., iglil..) LORDS CECIL AND CURZON. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) ! LONDON, May 15. The League of Nations Union publishes correspondence ' between Lord-Ro-bert Cecil and Lord Curzon on the subject of the Polish Advance. Lord Cecil writing on 3rd May strongly condemns the Polish offensive and hopes the British Government will immediately. summon the Council of. the League of Nations to deal with the situation. Lord Curzon replied on 12th'. May' and denied that Poland had been preparing to attack . Russia for months past. He declared the Poles endeavours to open peace negotiations/ were genuine, and were only abandoned when the Poles learned that the Bolsheviks were concentrating to oppose tlieir front, largo supplies of guns and materials captured from Deniken. Curzon says it was impossible to invoke the intervention of the League of Nations to check an offensive in an unfinished wafr. The League of Nations would he in a difficult position if it attempted to mediate between Poland and the Russian Government which does not recognise the League’s authority. Lord Curzon ‘disagreed with Cecil’s view that Estlionin and La tvia are hostile to Polanu. Lord Cecil replied on 13th May. dwelling on disease, starvation and misery of Eastern Europe and hoping even now that steps would he,taken to retrieve tli© position--
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1920, Page 3
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219LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1920, Page 3
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