THE LEAGUE
RECONSTRUCTION URGED. ITB FUTURE AT STAKE. SMALL STATES NOT PROTECTED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, May 17. Public utterances in various quarters of the globe make it increasingly dear that the future of the League of Nations must be carefully examined. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, admits that, all ideas centred in the League have failed, and urges its reconstruction if civilisation is to be protected. A message from Simla says that strong agitation is being fostered Ml over the country for India’s withdrawal from the League owing to its ineffectiveness In protecting the | weaker nations. The subject will he , raised with hostile intention at the next session of the Indian Congress. In Jerusalem, Hassan Sidky Dejani. the Arab strike leader, emphatically declared that the strike was directed solely against Britain as a mandatory Power working under the League, and added: “ Had the Arabs been as strong as Japan, Italy, or Germany, they would have wrested their rights from the League. However, their consolation is that the League is collapsing.” A SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT. ITALIAN DELEGATE ABSENT. \ THE COMMITTEE ON OPIUM. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 19, 1 p.m.) GENEVA, May 18. Signor Carazzoni, the Italian delegate on Ihe League Committee dealing with opium, did not attend to-day’s meeting of the committee. This is regarded as significant, as it is the first time since Baron Aloisi I walked out that Italy has been absent from League technical work.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 7
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