LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1925, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

TH CBS IT AVS PBOCFFDINGS. [Australia «V X.X. Cable Association.] GLX KVA, September 17. With the adoption this morning ol the annual report of the League s Secretariat, the Moi'd ol unrestricted debate ended. The way is now cleared for the committees to sit daily, fashioning resolutions which will lie a salve to those wedded to the Protocol, and, at the same time, to seek to carry its spirit into ihe Pact negotiations. I lie Uuiunanian, M. Dues, this morning upheld the League as a model of open diplomacy, hut however open lasi year's Protocol debate might have been it cannot he said that the present Assembly bail wholly been an cxampl. of putting all the cards on tin' table It ha- largely been a tactics Many small Lump.mil countries eoul.i not afford to discard the opinion ol Britain whom they regard a- :*. protector. Vet they stili look n> Li am . as tile exponent ol their aspirations, -o the debate look a middle course, and it is not an exaggeration in say that the chief aim ni the Assembly ito save the face of last year's gathering. This spirit has been carried inti the committees, where a series ol motions are now being, discussed, designed to reaffirm the ideals ol arbitration, seeitritv and reduction ol armaments The general belief is that the commit tees will submit to the Assembly next week a ero:> of innocuous recommendations, the most direct ol which may re cord satisfaction Hint the Pact negotiations are conforming wit Ii the spiri: of the League's covenant though there, is still a belief that something eon

erel l* nine emerge in the matter ol in ternat iona I a rhit rat ion.

Chili has submitted the new idea o! convening a eon fere nee of press expert? to devise a scheme for the more rapit and cheaper dissemination ol League news, in order to iniluence the world’? nieiila Ii I v.

The report of the Feonomie Committee. on which Mr Campion represented Australia, has been issued, hut it i? harmless from Australia’s viewpoint because the* recommendations are a nioeliiieation ol unpalatable trade pro hihitions and restrictions. It omits ordinary tariff arrangements.

The latest incident in the underenr rent of migration dismission oeeurrei when some Scandinavian deh'gaies up proaheed the Australians and urget that their Nordic nationals would hi glad to migrate to Australia, but they did nut press the point when tie. learned that the desired financial as sistanee could not be considered. There is a paragraph in the annua, report of tile League ol Nations Soe ieties’ Congress recommending D’t League Labour Coiiloreuco in D 23 C give attention to the international eon trnl of migration including the cn-or diuatiun of laws and protection of iin migrants. Mrs McKenna (Australia) of tie Committee on Child Wclliire. support ed the Duchess ol Atlioll’s request that oilier countries should cite their experience of the eine'ina upon children and also what they thought was neees s.ary to improve' children's lilies, Mr? McKenna said the epiestion was oi ah sorbing interest in Australia. whore some children went to lie cinema twin weekly.

Mr Swinburne was instriinu'iital n having any proposed health investign lion first examined on its merits by tin' Health Committee instead ol beiie. remitted dire'l to the health organi-n tions with consequent ia.t lieavv ex pc a dilute, whether instilled nr not. M. Linielieur i xoiaiie that tin French mot ion at tie Feuiiomie (on fcrence* will certainly include terills hut says France r'k? that question o Allied debts and migration he mu pine ed on the agenda.