AFTERMATH OF SUCCESS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1926, Page 3

AFTERMATH OF SUCCESS

"We filid ourselves to-day laced, ns regards the League of Nations, with a very rough and gritty situation. The proceedings at Geneva lately have been a very great shock, but every shock is not always of the same kind. 1 here are shocks which are deadening, and theiie are shocks which are quickening, and the shock which those of us who set out hopes on the League of Nations have’experienced from the proceedings at Geneva, is in my opinion, not a deadening but a quickening shock. Tt had shaken us out. of the complacency which had .settled upon us after Locarno last year. Last year the Lea gue of Nations had a very good year. It averted war in the Balkans between Groper' and Bulgaria, and the Locarno Treaties were looked upon—and I think rightly looked upon—as immensely strengthening the League of Nations and the prospect- of future peace. Now it often happens flint after a great success you have to fare n set-back and an adversity, and that is the situation in wlieh the League of Nations finds itself to-day.”—Lord Gvev of Fallodon.

THE BOGEY OF DF.PARTMT.NTB. “There is a general sentiment, and it is a healthy one, against the creation of new Government Departments, which, since they must lie subject to some measure of Parliamentary control in administration anil finance, muts ho waiting in that spirit of enticrpri.se which has always been characteristic of private industrial concerns in this country. Business men are nervous of this tendency of national policy, but so far as the generation of cheaper electricity is concerned, Lord Weir’s Committee lias evidently been convinced that the only way of solving our power problem, reacting on the prosperity of every industry, as well as the comfort of the homes of the people, is by a method of national development and control, and the Government has felt itself compelled to endorse that verdict.—“ Daily Telegraph.”