LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1927, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) LEAGUE AFFAIRS. LOXDON, Sept. 14. The “Daily Herald” states:—Widespread interest has beoen manifested in Mr MacDonald’s proposal for a special Imperial Conference to discuss the Empire’s obligations under the Geneva protocol. Rt. lion Arthur Henderson says: “The Protocal is not the final word in the regulation of international relations, but there has been much misunderstanding of the proposals They did not receive the dispassionate consideration to which they were entitled. owing to the conditions exiting in October 1921. Mr Henderson approves of a special imperial Conference.

Lord Parinoor says: “The full publication of the correspondence with the Dominion on the protocol is essential.” GEXEVA, Sept. 15. Mr llambro, the Norwegian delegate made an interesting suggestion to the Sixth Commission, a single transferable vole, equivalent to the Australian preferential voting, should he used in tlio J.-enp;uo Council elections. The Students LengcjO consider this method is possible, aAd is the only chance llie Dominion of Canada has of obtaining a seat at present, A solid block of fourteen Central and Southern American’s delegates will vote firstly for their own candidature and then vote again to fill the remaining vacancies. They will also he susceptible to lobbying on behalf of the ■small European powers. Their vote is decisive. The Dominion cannot be elected without at least part of the American votes.

While Smith Africa, and Canada, have supported the voting suggestion Air Hilton Young opposed it on the ground that the present method of election to the council ought to he further tried. A sub-committee has Leon appointed to consider the matter, LONDON, Sept. 14. “The Times’s” Geneva correspondent states: The League budget for 1928 is €987.003. an increase of 1.4 per cent over 1927 expenses of the Geneva secretariat offices. \ arious capitalists absorb £582.000. interna-, tional Labour office £330.000, I lie Hague Court of Justice. £GG,OOO. building at Geneva. The cost of the Assembly in 1928 is estimated at £ll .GOO and Council meetings £3090, commissions and conference £75.000.