LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1925, Page 3

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

pAustrnlia A- X.Z. Cable Association.] Till': I.FAGI'E ASS E M 111. V. HEX EVA. Sept. 11. Mr Austen ('hnmberlahVx reserve at the journalists' inlerview oa Thursday concerning the invitation of Herr fstre.scmann was due to the ab-cnee of Italy’s approval of lb' draft invitation. Tbe reply arrived on Thursday night. 1 1 s nature is host, indicated h.v llio I net Hiat M. Ilriand left fur Palis during, I lie morning. He told the journalists lie was gralilied at tinway events were shaping and was sanguine there would sunn he a pact covering Ihe Western ami Eastern frontiers, but lie added the reservation thill. evrything dejvnded whether Blrcsemann survived the cross currenis of Herman party politics. It is learned that Strcsemnnn was invited to a einil’ereiice in the lie-. I fortnight in Ot loher. Willi Mr Chamberlain's departure tn-nigbi. the Iwo big men of the Assembly have gone and it K sale to assume thin early next week will find the third cominiesinii settling down to prepare a I'-o-muia. perl a; - ililloemuis. whereon I lie Assembly will later debal:' the iiiv.loiuinaii: i--uo of security, arbitration ami iTsaruiaincut as a prelude lo tic Allied Minis tiers ('iiiifcrciu e at t'l" end el tbe liionlll. Delegate alter delegate inow arising in I lie Assembly to pun out words ol lament at the i’rotoc a - demise, wild the pouts hope tlmi its spirit and principle vv.il soon be ccMridicil in tbe system of regional agreements. Tins is notably tbe ease in tlie .speeches of the .Japanese (fsbiil and I!elgium (Hyman.-..) lshii declared doubts in connection with the Protocol s practical application hail seized many (ioveruments, each whereof viewed it in the light, of Hi ir own particular circumstances. Then was apparently u fear that regional agreements would revive pro war instability, but provided none of the agreements were directed towards any nation ami all included The principle of arbitration, object ions would assuredly disappear and the ’league be invested with the aureola of anew era. Hymans was emphatic There must be definite physical sanctions. Exce-I Id'.i t- lilioiigb moral sanctions even wilii the Pi'otucn] mutual pacts, would have been necessary, ill fact its very pillars of seeuriiy were paving 1.1 1 »* way to disarmament. Honour's speecli included a .graceful comment on Mr Chamberlain s illusion lo illogical basis of the .British Empire. Houeour said where ( I.umbel - htin sees only illogical we sec only a splendid continuity of English history, its solution of each problem on ohm its forming a regular sequence when viewed in light of real underlying basis. The Empire's institutions and reipiireliicuts indeed was a story which Kinling could rightly call tbe first story ol the world.