LEAGUE OF NATIONS
(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) LEAGUE COUNCIL. GENEVA, Marcl) (5. ’[’lie Council lengthily discussed tbc nun-ratification of agreements and conventions concluded under the League's auspices. Sir A. C liaiuberlain cited • tilt* opinion and other important conventions and pressed tor immediate ratification, [minting out that non-rati-fication was endangering the League. He urged there should be fewer conventions and more ratifications. It finally decided to place the whole question on the next Council agenda paper. BTUTTSH ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 0.30 a.m.i. GENEVA, .March 6. Lord Cushondun deeply impressed the Council by a declaration of the Empire’s unequivocal rejection of compulsory arbitration under the proposed model treaty. He said our far flung Empire was a- different problem from that which confronts other nations. Mo io unable to commit tlie Empire members to obligations which at present were unmeasurable. Could any one sav the extent to which the model Treaty justify them in specifically declaring their readiness to reduce armaments.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1928, Page 3
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