THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1921, Page 5

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

PUBLIC SUPPORT WANTED. SPEECH BY LORD ROBERT CECIL. / • By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 2. Sir James Mills presided at a luncheon given by the Australian and New Zealand Club to Lord Robert Cecil, who delivered an address on the League of Nations. He said the League was like the nations of the British Empire, which were fundamentally based on the principles of freedom and public opinion. If the League 'was to succeed public opinion in its favor must be fostered. The League already had done good work. He instanced the Austro-Hungarian States. They did not live very happily together and they looked to the League as the only hope of preventing this mass of tinder from igniting. The question of Silesia also had been reduced from a state of acute inflamation to a condition presaging early convalescence. Lord Robert Cecil asked: “Who would say Australia and New Zealand had not an interest in the peace of Europe?’' All the nations of the world were bound together economically and every sheep fanner and every artisan in Australia and New Zealand was deeply effected, even by the settlement of the boundaries of Albania. Even if Australia and New Zealand did not need the League the latter needed them. Their : point of view was of immediate value to the League. Lord Robert Cecil paid a tribute to Sir James Allen for his lucid exposition of matters at Geneva and Mr. Bruce’s speech on uisarmament, which was one of the most notable delivered at the assembly. — Cable Assn.