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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST, 1981.

A POWER FOR GOOD.

LORD BALFOUR ON THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

That the League of Nations has accen plished much for the good of humanity and will achieve still greater things is the.

pinion of the Earl of Balfour.

Hostile critics," he writes," may in dustriously pick out cases where, in their opinion, the League has failed; cases where it has dous nothing, or has done wrong.

But what is the value of such villings as these? The League makes no pretence to infallibility.

neither aniscient nor all-powerful. And surely vital question for us all is not whether

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it fails to do same things which some por. to see done; but whether it

does

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hich certainly ought to be organizatiota,

done, and which no existener, or in contemplation, is

in

of doing. Who can doubt what the answer should be! The League has existed for four ears only- mere moment in the history of civilization. Yet unless I be greatly mistaken, it has, even in this brief period, shown itself capable of perform- ance which should give pause to the most prejudiced among its crities, and hope to the least sanguine among its friend. **

THE OLD DIPLOMACY."

lu the article, which is published in this month's hate of Headway," the official organ of the Lengue of Nations Union. Lord Balfour says that ne friends of the Lengur have excitel criti- cism by their denunciation of the old diplomacy

He admits that diplomacy has often been growały rasused: but. on the other hand, the services rendered by the diplomatists of nations, reasonably and pacifically inclined have been of infimte benefit to international harmony and even' in the millennium diplomacy must remain the "necessary instrument of inferḍational intercourse."

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The real question is whether the old diplomacy is sufficient, and the auswer in that It is not, because it was created

surve the interests of individual States. in their relations, friendly or otherwise, with the rest of the world. II' it abo served the interests of the world, as doubt less it often dill, this was because the in- terests of the two happened often to coin.

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contemplated by its contrivers. Yet whe BOWERN & CO., can deny that, even under these untoward condition, the League has worked and well It has performed more than one task to which (through no fault of its own) the old diplomacy had shown itself unequal. It has

supervised the

ad ministration of communities torn by racial antagonism and historical resentment witness Danzig. It has dealt with fron tter problems of extraordinary complexi ty and even where its award has (inevit- bly) satisfies neither disputant as in the case of Upper Silesia, it is admitted that the arrangements made for maintain-

economic life of the divided ter ritories have been crowned with

a most at factory measure of succes. It has played the leading pars in the Conacial reform of Austria. It is, I trust, in a fair way to perform the same great ›er. vice for Hungary.

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It has preserved peace where war seemed certain, as in the case of Serbia and Albania. It has settled most difficult international disputes, as in the case of Swelen and Finland. It has succeeded a long-desired Court of Jastice, which bas already demonstrated its value as & tribunal for jurisdical questions where Govern. ments are at issue and diplomacy has fail- ed to and a solution. I will not attempt enumerate its performances in such take as those dealing with international waterways, controlling the spread of epid emies, alleviating the lot of political re- fugees, and diminishing the miseries of fnamine-stricken provinces These are but specimens of a larger class"

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A GREAT MISSION *. Now i am the last person to minimize the patience and the ability which indivi dual members of the Council and the As- uided by their admirable staff. have shown in dealing with those varied and often most dificult, subjects. But it is all important to remember that their successes have been due not merely to their own efforts, but to the fact that these were made in the name and with the

authority of the

the League of Nations, New

for the first time in the history of the worki international public opinion bas been given a permanent organ of self-ex- pression; for the first time it is conscious of a great mission, for the first time it with machinery for

has brei Euppies into effect.

Carmen that

agents therefore, and its represen. tatives, whether they be members of the Assembly or of the Council speak and act in their collectivs capacity, with m Kind of authority, which, be it

gre all, has few precedents in the ence of mankind. Each

his

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individually

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the delegate of his own country, and as such has special duties to perform. But

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embodied in its Acaly and Council, and these, like all living olitical organism develop qualities and characteristics thedr own which are more than the sum of the qualities and characteristics of their individual members. Neither of them will ever knowingly be the mere instruments of particular ambi tions or the support of particular inter- ts. The spirit fostered by the League 18 as wide, nay, wider than the League

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