LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1927, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] LEAGUE COUNCIL. LONDON, .March 14. , “ Nobody can doubt the League is moving slowly as ft should move, but with gathering strength,” said Sir A. Chamberlain on las return to London. The recent council had seen no private conclaves to discuss international ques tions, although there had been many single conversations. The best evidence of the League’s progress was the Council’s successfully attacking at a public meeting, the Saar question, where apparently a deadlock has arisen. This showed improvement in the relations between the allies and the Germans since Locarno. A NEW ORIENTATION. LONDON. March* 14. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says: “The effneement of YYesteru Furo.oo’x feuds from the proceedings at the Council of the liongiio of Nations was the most significant feature of iho Geneva meeting. This is traceable to the influence of the Locarno Pact, which, it is interesting to observe, is known as “Locarno.” Alore than as a guarantee for the ]reave of the Rhineland, the Locarno Pact’s greatest value was that it- was a guarantee against the Soviet and the Asian menace. This necessitated that Germany should be restored to the comity of civilised nations, and that she should not he driven by senseless ostracism into the ranks of the enemies of Europe.”