FACTOR IN PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1922, Page 5

FACTOR IN PEACE.

INFLUENCE OF LEAGUE. MORE ACTIVITY URGEO. NOT DOING ENOUGH. By Telegraph.—Press Aaan.—Copyright. Received Sept. 7, 7.55 p.m. London, September 6. The Australian Press Association's correspondent at Genoa states that Lord Robert Cecil, discussing the council’s annual report, made an impassioned appeal for increased activities on the part of the League in the promotion of settlements of international feuds. He admitted that the League’s province was to promote a new peace, and not to clear up old feuds which were legacies of the Great War. Nevertheless, he contended it was impossible for the League to ignore international quarrels, which delayed peace, instancing the Greeco-Turkish war. concerning which there had been international negotiations, but no appeal to the League to intervene. Lord Robert Cecil considered the League should have carried out such negotiations, or they should have been conducted by other organisations under the supervision of the League. Similarly . in regard to Russia, he regretted that the League had not intervened in a more decisive manner in connection with the famine. Had the League done so it might have mitigated the horrors and opened the door to a renewaj of intercourse between Russia and other nations, without raising political and economic questions, which had defied a settlement at Genoa and The Hague. The Russian and Austrian conditions were only part of the economic crisis affecting the whole world. A competent authority had stated that the fall of the mark had by no means reached its limit, and that it was only a quest• on of a few months before the financial situation in Germany would approximate that in Austria, and this would react not only upon the rest of Europe, but upon every country in the world. Sir A. Steel Maitland submitted a resolution for future consideration, demanding intervention to check the recrudescence of slavery in Africa since the war. Received Sept. 7, 5.5 p.m. Geneva. September 6. Clause ten of the League’s conventions. which met strong objection in America, is likely to be amended by the substitution of regional guarantees, under which nations having mutual obligations to each other should be grouped.