WHAT THE LEAGUE IS DOING.
“Wo to-day realise that politics is not a game, not a matter of fame and Rory and getting into Parliament but a scientific studv. We have got to reL bink our politics. Political’, institutions must correspond to The ebhdition.s of the age in which we live, t am a League of Nations offiqai. I have the misfortune constantly to. meet people who look on the League as,an ’ism, a perfect kingdom of Hea'ven' set -lip -at Geneva, to which man’’"d Ifas slowly to approximate'—a ’ ind 'of Sunday school vision. No one ’-nows 'better than a League of Nat:oh<; the limitations of political 'iiistitnttiohs.a Economic intefdepend-"uee,-tho’root fao l o) , .iin the world, has •>cO’>- t>nl]pd- TiS to • bring into being an biteio’di+folTal political organisation to n-ayo7if onr being controlled by trusts The .Polities of the world are in the V-ids af about sixtv sovereign Spates, "-«('»m big, s'-TTie little. About half of ‘'•"m- .are weaker Than certain individual private organisations:' - The 'League of Vat'ons is an attemnt on the nart 'of man kind to (recover control o-or economic forces.”—Professor Assistant Director of the T pc+’tut'’ of Intellectual Co-operation under the Teague of Nations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1930, Page 3
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197WHAT THE LEAGUE IS DOING. Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1930, Page 3
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