LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1924, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

ASSEMBLY DEBATE. GENEVA, October 1

The galleries were crowded when the Assemniy cf the League of .Nations opened a full clres debate cm the disarmament Protocol. Seventeen delegates spoke. Tlie general tone of the

speeches was one of satisfaction at the League’s great step forward towards securing peaee. The hope was expressed that the Protocol would he universally signed, and ratified. .M. Ilriaml gave an assurance of France's co-operation in carrying out the Protocol, and he declared that, when published, it would create such enthusiasm among the masses ihatau atmosphere of pence would become apparent everywhere. 'I he finest tiling was that the Protocol made no difference hc-twecn the big and the little nations. The Protocol will be published tonight. Tile essential points in the terms have been covered in previous cables.

WAR OUTLAWED. LONDON. October 1. Tlie “Daily Chronicle’s’’ (lonova correspondent says, that the- general report presented to the League Assembly stales: ‘'Our purnose was to make war: impossible —to kill it—annihilate it. The plan now drawn up leaves no loophole. It prohibits war of every description. Arbitration is provided for ever - kind in dispute, and aggression is delinc-d in such a way as gives no cause for hesitation. Wo have boon led to (ill the gaps in the League Covenant and to doll no the sanction, so that no possible means may he found for evading them, and so a dehnite basis is created for a feeling uf security, Finally, a coiiforoneo on the reduction of aininiameiits is indissolubly hound up with this system. There can ho no arbitration or security without disarmament, nor disarmament without. arbitration, and the security of the peaee of the world is at -take. |.mil Pai-mooi" (Britain) emphasised ill., point i ha: every govoruiuout must l„. lin decide to wlie.t extent, and in what form, it could best co-operate in supporting llio Cuvem.nl and giving assistance t<> tin- victim of aggression. It was hardly necessary In contradict tlie absurd statement that he had <>llered the British Navy to the League. The Protocol was lull the first step, hs provision for arbitration and seiirity must remain in abeyance until the Disarmament Conference had successlullv ronchultul.

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