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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1938.

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to Geneva to pick up the old tools they will find them blunted or al- together lost. Then the League itself may be blamed, for it will no longer be the same.

The most dangerous heresy which now threatens the League is the new doctrine that the col- |lective obligations contained in the Covenant or the resolutions of the Council and Assembly are not binding on their individual members. According to this new doctrine these "obligations” are only "optional." So when Lord Halifax proposes that each mem- ber of the Council should be free to decide for itself whether to recognise the Italian conquest of

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It is reported that when the League Council assembled on the last day of its recent session at Geneva a spectator in the gallery stood up and shouted: "I speak Abyssinia he is (quite apart from the merits of the case) weaken- for the peoples of Europe!"Longing the very principle of the live Peace! Long live the Lea-League of Nations, which is that individual nations must surren- gue and the United States of der their own wants to the col- lective judgment of the Council Europe!" He was promptly

or Assembly. And when the ejected by detectives. In the cir- Council grants Switzerland ́ex- emption from all obligations to cumstances, perhaps, this

was impose sanctions on an aggressor wise; for this session of the Coun-it is (quite apart from the merits of the case) encouraging other cil has surely gone down on re League members to think that cord as the most depressing in they too may claim all the pri- vileges while accepting none of its history. In considering the the responsibilities. The Scan- dinavian States have already present sickness of the League, claimed “independence of judg- however, it is important to dis-ment" and "liberty of action" in any future case when article 16 tinguish between cause and of the Covenant may be invoked,

effect. The cause, as has often but in truth "independence of

judgment" and "liberty of action" been pointed out, is no fault in are inconsistent with the League Covenant just as much as simple the organisation or principles of neutrality. One cannot, blame the League but the weakness and these smaller States who natural- stupidity of its members. Soy wish to escape from the dan gers for which the Great Powers are largely responsible, but, for all that, these movements should be resisted. The case of Chile, who resigned from the League because insufficient attention had been paid to her demands for re- form of the Covenant as the first step towards a "universal Lea-

when the Council rejected Spain's appeal, gave but cold comfort to London Phil. Orch. China, and encouraged the aban- London Phil. Orch. donment of Abyssinia, these were DX 829 I BRING YOU A SONG... The Voice of Romance with Orch, the failures of Governments and, DX 818-GRANDE VALSE IN A FIAT MAJOR Ania Dorfmann Piano.

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