WILL RESIGN FROM LEAGUE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1939, Page 7

WILL RESIGN FROM LEAGUE

Unless Russia Is Expelled DENUNCIATION OF SOVIET AGGRESSION EVEN OUTWARD FORM OF LEGALITY DISDAINED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) GENEVA, December 13. Senor Freyre told the League Assembly that unless Russia were ejected, the Argentine would resign from the League. Demanding the application of Paragraph 4, Article 16, of the Covenant, he declared that: “The question is whether we are to continue to allow the perpetrator of this act of aggression to sit among us. My Government considers that this is impossible. This is not the first member State unjustifiably attacked, but the case is attended by such circumstances as compel my Government to pass the most severe judgment. The aggressoi has denied that she is at war, disdaining even the outward form of legality and therefore placing herself outside the Covenant. We need no longer be restrained by a desire to act cautiously and weigh our responsibilities with the object, of preserving peace. We are confronted by a state of war. Daventry reports that the Assembly of the League of Nations was to meet again last evening to consider the Finnish question. It had already met earlier in the day, when the Argentine delegate moved for the expulsion of the Soviet under threat of withdrawing from the League unless Russia were expelled. The proposals were referred to the Central Appeal Committee, which is also considering Russia’s rejection of the League appeal lor arbitration. It is understood that the committee will agree to the expulsion proposal and will present a report to the Assembly. 11 it is passed by the Assembly, as it most probably will be, it has to go to the League Council, but at that stage a unanimous vote is necessary before a member State can be expelled.