LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1925, Page 3

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association/' AN IM PI? SSI YE SPEECH. GENEVA. Sept. l*|. The verbatim typescript, of Mi Chamberlain’.* speech read* lief ter titan the spoken words, but the best fesl was the most cordial reception of (he interpreter’s Eroncli rendering, after which the applause was warmly renewed. Mr Chamberlain's most impressive passage was his reference to the illogical bases, where on, not only the British Constitution, bin Empire development was built: yet they all were more adapted to the finding of it middle path, leading more securely to the desired cud. Was it not. lie said, tin very secret of the Empire's unity and the concord of its very elasticity, it* very lack of definite orceision and preservation. whereof the Empire Ministers again and again preferred, rather than the embodiment- in black and white of it, constitution. It was necessary. therefore, to hecil the cliH'cronees iii Anglo-Saxon ami Latin mentalities irconsidering I lie protocol. Since Mi Cliamherittiii addressed the Council te March many proof- bail been forthcoming, b-iti the small States shared tho same fear that the protocol was more designed to punish the criminal Iliac to prevent commission of crime. Die not the last Assembly devote more attention to physical sanctions. applicable to fragrant aggressons, than t< moral sanctions, which were the more iii tl lie! 1 1 iit I deciding issue. [it continuing Mr Chamberlain sail that disarmament, through the security of arbit rat ion, was tbeir common platform. Moral disarmament, was more important than physical disarmament. and if Britain achieved it in the sphere of Europe, wherewith she was most associated, -site would contribute in no small measure to the penct of the world. Such a system ot mutual agreements could be applied t> otb.er menace spots, tints iuercasittf. the League’s iiilluettec and authority. Eor two dav* tills discussion ot international amity "ill continue ot general lines in tlie debate on tin League's annua! report, but tlie specific debate on arbitration and security is not yet in sight. Ibis is the thirteenth item on the agenda that Jutbeen referred to the Assembly's Thin'

Commit lee. but hitherto the a; tun onus of remission were undecided an. i,> Ihe committee has not mol. It e understood that nothing will he don. until a reply arrives from licrlin n response to the communication einana ling from Ihe foreign Ministers meeting yesterday. Mr Chamberlain lias definitely *ii ranged to go to Loudon on Salind.iy night. It is expected the committee wil learn the nature of its task early i.ex,

wetdv. . . It, is more than a coincidence In.directly Mr Chamberlain sat down Ifu Swedish foreign Minister submitted ; motion urging that the whole principa of compulsory arbiy.ntion ebntmnei in the proto; d I e remitted _to a flier conference of experts. Ibis is le garded as a further mutually agree safeguard to prevent the broad <|uesth„r coming to a definite diseiissior and decision ill the open assembly.

VUKTRIAN WORKERS. VIENNA. Kept. ID. A demonstration strike carried out bv Austrian civil servants, who a-scin bled in the Town Hall and resolve' that Austria’s representatives at tin Geneva Conference draw the aUenn"' of the league of Salons to their intolerable situation. The demonstrate! - included the officials of the Chicl ( rue iual Court, where despite vehement threats from a judge. _ the strike! s interrupted the trial »t a but -Im «• was forcibly removed Imm the do. k Most, of the warder and officials pint ted the building after locking tm doors. ... .