LEAGUE’S FUTURE

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19879, 7 May 1936, Page 7

LEAGUE’S FUTURE

FACING THE CRISIS. GENERAL SMUTS’ ADVICE. ll:\.\'G ON TO SANCTIONS. United Press Assn—Exec. Tel. Copyrlghl (Received May 7, 11.0 mm.) , LONDON. )Iny G‘,‘

General Smuls, In a letter to the League of Nations Union, expresses the oplniun that 11‘ Itul_\~ “gels away \\’llll it “ lllc Empll'e will law a crisis

as grave as that! in 19H. because there will he a repetition of warfare 911 a much greuler scale lllun in Abyssinia. “i am for hanging on grimly 10 sanclions. even if it is impussiblc to augment them" he says. " Sunclions should secure a decent peace even if Ilal)~ bursts in lhe pl'occssi Olher\\'ls9 the League \_\'ill be broken."

MUST GO ON. SOME FORMIDABLE QUESTIONS. CONFIDENCE ASKED FOR. (Omctni Wireless.) (Received May 7. 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, May 6. In his speech on foreign uti‘airs in the House uf Commons Mr Anthony Eden (Secretary 01' State for Foreign Affairs) said it was clear the League must go on. They haul to admit that the League‘s action had neither prevented the outbreak" of “111' nor arrested it, Olli'C begun At most it haul made the proserutlon of the war more (llmrult, and more costly. The world and the League accordingly were faced with these formidable questions: Could they anticipate in the future more \Jgorous action by the Longue than had DI‘OVOII pos—sible in this ilispulr'} ' “‘ol‘o tho nntinns likely to undertake (:rnvcr risks than they hmt hccn prcpnrrtl to hike hitherto? \Vas it possible to organise the Imugur's zirtiun that it wauld ho [il'(‘\‘(‘illi\'(,‘ rather than I‘B- -

Those were some, but only some, of the qucslions tn he faced. The dimcullles wore great. but the Gov—ernmenl would approach them in the splrlt of realism and cullsll‘uclive stalesnmnship. .3” Ellen declined to make a stale—menl on the p‘olicy he would pursue at the meellng ol‘ the League Council. He claimed that It was not unreasonable that he should ask for the coufldence of the House under present conditions.