WAR NOT IMMINENT

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 9

WAR NOT IMMINENT

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION NOTED PACIFIST’S VIEWS (Special to Times). WELLINGTON, Wednesday “The international situation is steadily deteriorating, hut personally 1 dq not believe in the imminence of war,” of tlie British House of Commons and a distinguished worker in the cause of world peace, who arrived at Wellington to-day iby the Bangitune from London. “The situation, however, Is tilled with dangerous possibilities, and has grown very much worse in the last live years.” continued Mr Henderson. “I do not at all like the attitude of Germany, as expressed by her press and political spokesmen, toward Czechoslovakia. That may be a danger point. “Spain, too, presents a very dimcult problem. There we are witnessing for the first time in the world’s history what is apparently no more than a civil war, but is in actuality an international one.” Mr Henderson said the League of Nations had admittedly received a [severe setback over the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the Japanese occupation of Manehukuo, and again in the present Japanese invasion of China, but that was all the more reason why steps should be taken to render the League a more effective instrument. It was only an instrument after all, and if it had been badly used that was no reilection on the merit of the instrument itself. i