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10 YEARS LIFE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Smyrna came to Gerleva, will not
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soon be forgotten in the annals of the League. It is now possible to [By the Right Honourable the Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, K.C.] Inok back upon a great work of mercy almost completed: for of one lahing the prestige of the League and a half million refugees in after's troubled an Infancy-the Greece, all but a few are NOW calibre of the Secretariat; the early settled in towns or on the land ami and successful encounters of the furnished with productive employ League with the political realities ment. It was, then, a League to of a ruined Continent; and the which a vast number of human be- establishment of contret betweenings already owed their safety, it the League and public opinion, not their very lives, that in the Upon this latter point I am con- four years from 1922 to 1926 faced vinced that the voluntary League one after another the political crises of Nations Socielies now at work likely to lead to war, which, under in forty different countries have the terms of its Covenant were re- rendered the League an inestimable ferred to it for peaceful settle- service.
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upon to mediate, or the Surretariat and by 3. Albert arbitrate, or conciliate. The first Thomas at the International Labour threat of its enforcing sanctions lice was one of the happy sur-to stop aggression availed to arrest prises of post-war Europa. Herein Yugoslav incursions into Albania the critics were, quickly confound-in 1921. In the next year
A Happy Suprise
Its
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Geneva, September 7. As we gathered (last Saturday) to lay the foundation stone for a permanent endquarters of the League of Nations, it was impossible not to recall the crowded and busy days of discussion at the Canference of Paris and the sittings of the Committee charged with the draft ing of the Covenant and the final adoption of its proposals by the Conference. Several of my old col leagues of the Covenant Committée -M. Venizelos, once more holding the reins of power in Greets: General Smuts, to whom the Coven- owes so much. M. Hymans, 31nister of Foreign Affaira Jelgium: Signor Seluloja of Italy- live to see, and I hope take courage, from the outcome of their labours. I could have wished that Wendrew Wilson, whose courage and deter- mination made the League possible, cd. For instead of a babel of judgment upon the sovereignty and Leon Bourgeois, who brought trials each intriguing on behalf exercised over the Aaland Islands the critical acuteness and logical of his own Government-which was was accepted by Finland and spirit of France to the building of it, freely prophesied the world woke Sweden. Ita minor interventions could have lived to share our Tap to find a body of expert man between Czechó - Slovakia Pratitude for all that the recent and women of forty nationalities Poland, between Austria ceremony has symbolised. For be working strenuously and smoothly Hungary, and upon several of the hind this removal of the centre of for a common end. By deeds more Baikan frontlers were no less suc- our new international community eloquent than wards the League's cessful. The regime which it from the Inadequate shelter of a staff have made it clear that the established for the much contested cosmopolitan hotel and a second rate organized community of nations is city of Memel was accepted as a concert hall to a dignified and abid- an ideal worth living for and as model for
international a great ing home fie a great truth and a shown by the self-sacrifice of those port. The Council promptly ar- great hope. The truth ja that, the who gave their lives to save Europe rested hostilities between Greeze League of Nations has became, in- from typhus and cholera in 1920-and Bulgaria in October 1925 and stead of a frail experiment, an inworth dying for. It would be its settlement of the Mosul frontier dispensable organ of co-operation difficult to exaggerate what the between Turkey, Irak and the Bri- for the great part of the Govern world owes to the Secretary-General tish Empire did much to establish ments of the world. The hope is himself and to the system of con-its prestige as a pacific agency that acceptance of this truth will tinuity and coherence which he has among the Great Powers. If it soon be strong enough among the given to the work of the Council, failed to
satisfactory peoples of the world to oblige their the Assembly and the many settlement in the matter of the Governments to put aside the costly technical cenférences of the League. Vilna controversy, if it did and hate-provoking implements of
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obtain complete justice in the crises conflict, that survive from an age His international position is ex-which culminated in the Italian of armed rivalry and are now a traordinary. Everyone trusts him bombardment of Corfu in 1923, flagrantly inconsistent with the co-no one is jealous of him. B1. Mr. Baldwin is, I believe, right in operation centred in Geneva which Albert Thomas' vigorous personality insisting, as he has often done, that increases yearly in effectiveness, has not only imposed a remarkable it was due to the pressure of the Then and then only shall we see a standard of efficiency upon his League and its power to focus League strong enough to stifle any Office, but shamed not a few pro-public opin ɔa upon the contending outbreak of Inwless violence. how-crastinating Governments into parties that neither collet de ever formidable the
aggressor. ratifying Conventions for improved generated into war. Herein lies the chief task of the conditions of Labont To Senor deende before us: but, before look Madariaga all of us who work for (Continued On Page 12) ing ahead, it is Atting that we international Disarmament should take stock of the present real debt of gratitude. To Sir the League of Nations during the trian reconstruction of the financial situation and recall the progress of Arthur Salter, the architect of Aus-
ten years that are past.
schemes which saved Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria from inso)-! vency, and of the World Economic Conference, Europe, la in no small degree Indebted for the compara. tive tranquillity which it now en- joys. British men and women were proud to see the best traditions of British Red Cross work guiding the Health and Social services of the League in the person of Dame Rachel Crowdy: and the extra- unpromising beginaings of the ordinary development-from such
numbers of people fadge the mult League's relations with the farious activities of the League to journalist and news agencies of day. This is perhaps due to the the world, is almost entirely the profound disillusionment produced work of M. Comert and the Informa- In the public mind by the disastrous tion Section which he directs. political and economic consequences These are but a very few of the new League, in which so many hopes of the war and the Inability of the names which it is an elementary
had been reposed, to put the world quickly to rights. The refusal of
A Period of Disillusionment Public opinion upon the League of Nations in many countries still lags behind reality, The League as it lives and works to-day is something, very different from the compara tively impolent organisation, still overshadowed by remains of the great Allied machine of war, which groped its way into European life nine or ten years ago. Yet it is, I find, still by the standards of 1921
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Some religious leaders, though by If the calibre of the League's no means all of them, already re- personnel did much to win respect luctant to commit themselves to the for that institution, this was soon support of the League, were less justified by the League's first en than ever disposed to entangle counters with grave emergencies. eternal verities with what acemed Many of the tasks committed to experiment. Very few of the great the League by the clauses of the newspapers of Europe or America | Peace Treaties were indeed some- likely to be an ephemeral political what embarrassing. The ad. elther troubled to have special re- ministration of the Saar and of presentatives to follow the League's Danzig and the determination of work or were able to resist in their the Polish-German frontier. follow- editorial columna the prevailing ing
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