THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) DR NANSEN’S SPEECH. , GENEVA, Sept. 26. Sustained acclamation marked the Assembly’s unanimous passage of the Third Comimission’s resolution, cabled on 21st September. The outstanding speech v-as Dr Nansen’s urging Britain’s adoption. He admitted the force of Sir A. Chamberlain’s speech, but explained if small States seemed to under estimate Britain’s powerful support at the League, it was because rthey bad taken certain things ns too obvious to need statement. They realised Britain’s hesitation to increase a commitment was due to anxiety not to weaken the power to honour existing engagements by contracting new ones. They also recogised Britain’s special position in relation to units of Empire, also that any new commitments would be more onerous in her case because she had the largest fleet. Consequently he had drafted a formula recognising the foregoing considerations, diminishing, not Increasing Britain’s responsible ties under the Protocol.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1927, Page 3
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151THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1927, Page 3
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