LEAGUE COUNCIL TAKES ACTION
(British Offlcial Wireless)
efforts for peace CONTINUATION OF PRESENT DANGEROUS SITUATION IMPOSSIBLE BRITISH VIEWS SUPPORTED
RUGBY, Tuesday. At Geneva on. the initative of Great Britain, a special meeting of the League Council was summoned at which Mr. J. A. Thomas, British Secretary of State for the Dominions, formally bought to the notiee of the Council the gravity of the latest developments in the situation and read a statement which Sir John Simon (Foreign Minister) made in the House of Commons. The Dominion Secretary's statement was listened to in intense silence. He emphasised the need for immediate action, declaring that the British Government felt that the present situation could not be allowed to eontinue and pointed out its reaction on the League. After referring to the joint efforts by Britain and the United States to restore peace, he expressed the hope that the other members of the League would reinforce the proposals made to the Japanese and Chinese Governments. Mr. Thomas announced that Great Britain regarded a continuation of the situation as impossible. He added: "War in everything but name is progressing. The members of the League cannot be indifferent to it,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 139, 4 February 1932, Page 3
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