BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1931, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 24. In the House oi Commons, Mr MacDonald told a questioner -that the Government could not consider the taking of international action to pi»vt>m> Japan from ordering engines for her naval aircraft, -some of which orders were already placed in Britain.

LEAGUE INQUIRY

■RUGBY, November 24.

A draft of the resolution, providing for the despatch of a Commission to examine the Manchurian situation on the spot, has been communicated by M. Briand to the Japanese and Chinese delegates. Private conversations regarding its terms continued all day.

ENGLISH INTEREST.

LEAGUE’S HANDICAP

RUGBY, November 24. Every phase of the Manchurian situation is oeing lo.lowed wivu the closest attention in this country. Referv’nrj to the severe test whi< V the problem imposed on the League, Sir Arthur Salter, the eminent economist, urged that the essential point was that hostilities should cease, and that the League should have an opportunity of forming and expressing an opinion oh the question, A settlement -should be reached by pacific means, It might be that the matters in dispute would have to be deferred until Manchuria had been exacuated, apart from the railway zone. It was very undesirable that there should be any hectoring or schoolmastering attitude towards either side, but the League should mobilise all the moral forces of the world, so that the peace machinery wouid be recognised and strengthened. Much more was at stake than a local dispute between China and Japan. It was not only the mechanism of the League that was at -stake, /but also the world s peace machinery.