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THE HONGKONG

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Is the League Dead?

ESPITE all that the pessimista say, the League is not even moribund. And never before has the need for everything for which the League stands beon so great as to-day,

It would be idle to deny that the working of the League's machinery has disappointed many of its staunchest supporters. Its failure to stop the rape of Manchuria and its sudden collapse when success was in sight during the Itallan conquest of Abyssinia came as dismal shocks to those who looked to Geneva.

But the reasons for these failures are now too well known to reflect on the system for which the League stands. The machinery of the League was there to hand; subsequent events have shown it was not through any fault of the machinery, but of those who refused to use it that the Italian aggression for one remained unchecked,

And the very Governments which did most to damage the League's prestige -among them our own "National " Government-have since shown that they have no alternative policy to that underlying the League Covenant-that of collective consultation and collective action.

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Tis fashionable to talk of Geneva as a dead letter, to accept blindly "the fallure of Governments for the Look at the failure of the system.

Spanish affair!" you hear people say. The League could not deal with it, so you had to have a Non-Intervention Committee In London."

But the Non-Intervention Committee is not an alternative to the League. It is simply a miniature copy of it.

The possibilities of individual inter- vention in the Spanish rebellion opened up such alarming vistas of inter- national friction that it became imperative to arrange that all Governments concerned should gather round the same table to ace what could be done about it.

Which, in essence, is precisely what the League is for,

Whatever one's views may be of the non-intervention policy, the fact remains that Governments can do nothing without inter- national consultation and inter- national action, And they know it. Reluctantly, in many cases, they have reaised that the old policies of glorious isolation and of indivi- dual action have never made, and can never make, any contribution to world peace.

For no Government has any better policy to offer than u League policy.

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new

will

RITISH cinemas shortly be showing

nt taken Allm Geneva and covering the activity. of the League in all its many spheres. The film is introduced by. the Secretary-General of League, and M. Avenol delivers himself of a fundamental truth when he says:

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Do not forget that no dispute is ever brought before the League until it has proved too difficult to be handled by ordinary diplomatic channels."

When that is universally realised there will be a greater appreciation of the League's difficulties, as well ng of the League's fallings. Gov- ernments know that there is another stage before the Inevitable declaration of war which hitherto marked the breakdown of diplo- matie negotiations, and that is a

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One of the mural paintings adorning the walls of the League of Nations Assembly. They deplet the horrors and futility of war and are by a Spanish artist, Jose Maria Sert, inho now knows what war mcans.

tremendous contribution towards world peace.

Unhappily, memories are short. For the League has not always failed,

Was

In 1925 troops were ranged along the frontiers of Greece and Bui- garta; an ultimatum had been de- livered and the outbreak of war with terrible consequences only a few hours off. Hastily, the and. Council Was summoned, almost at zero hour, hostilities were prevented,

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A short two and a half years ago a man concealing a machine rific under his jacket broke-through a thin police cordon-at Marseilles, Jumping on the running board of a passing car, he poured a stream of bullets into the bodies of its 3 Teigning occupants, killing monarch and a Foreign Minister.

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N angry Jugoslavia, mourning the loss of its King, discovered that the assassination had been plotted whose In A terrorist camp existence had been winked at by the Hungarian authorities, For forty-eight hours Europe was over- shadowed by war clouds. Fortun

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nately there was a League of Nations. The much abused ma chinery of Geneva was set in motion and Europe was saved from catastrophe,

To have stopped two wars-even "teeny-weeny "wars-is not a bad record in less than twenty years of axistence. The pessimists should remember that if the League has had its failures It has had its suc- cesses too,

And, because it is always the sen- sational political developments that get the widest publicity, the many activities of the League in other than political spheres are lost sight of. While the League was fatting" over Manchuria and Abyssinia the. League's technical services, its social and humani- tarian committees, worked steadily,

task on their

ot ridding the world of the Ills that breed wars.

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HOBE-cinema-goers.who. sce the League's film will get some idea of the tremendous scope of these non-political activities. Some of them are known to a few. Most of them have never touched the fringe of publicity.

Few of those who talk gilbly of the League, which is to them a vague resting place at Geneva for Itinerant statesmen, know, for in- stance. that every week in the Far and Middle East, powerful radio stations broadcast to ships' authorities port captains and warnings of the outbreak of the dread bubonic plague or the in-

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

T. E. Pearce, Esq., Chairman.

lon. Mr. 3. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman,

WEDNESDAY,

sidious sprend of smallpox and cholera.

The Singapore office of the League (only a few know it even exists) receives reports from all Eastern countries ovory, fow days describing the national altuation of epidemic diseases, These reports are analysed and broadcast by ten stations once a week.

In distant Rio de Janeiro League research station has been engaged for some years in study- ing at first hand the disease of leprosy. National laboratories in England and Denmark distributo standard samples of vaccines, organ extracts and drugs for the guidance of doctors and hospitals throughout the world.

Those standards have been fixed by the League's health organisa- tion after consultation among the greatest medical authorities in the world. Results of research into malarla and yellow fever in tropi- cal hospitals and swamps are co- ordinated at Genova in the search for prevention and cure.

in OLICE authorities every country receive

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sonic 600 car yenr reports showing how drug smug- glers seek to evade the authori- ties. As soon as a new, Ingenious method of smuggling is discovered,

it is described through the League to the police of all countries, so that gradually a net is drawn round the traffickers.

Since 1930, as a result of the Lengua's efforts, the trade in drugs has fallen by a half.

Indefatigably,

the League's Social Committee has been work ing to stamp out the traffic in women and children, especially in Eastern countries. Through its insistence, no fewer than 18 coun

brothels abolished tries have entirely, while seven others have done so partially. Slowly but surely the League is tackling the problems of the neglected and delinquent child: Its services en- deavour to co-ordinate and univer- salise the best reforms of prisons and of criminal law.

Through the League, govern- ments and the public learn of Im- portant world economic develop- ments, for its staff of skilled sorts and sirts, economists ..examines and analyses different economic trends in all countries,

TS annual publications cover all matters relat- ing to production and trade, prices and money, banking and public-Enance, Last week an International sugar conterence, organised by the League, succeeded in securing international, agree-. ment on the vital question of world sugar quotas.

Such widely diversa subjects as inland and maritime navigation, buoyage and lighting of coasts, universalisation of the common-

the road signals famillar to motorist, are all dealt with in League services unheard of by the general public.

There is no such service in the world and never has beon. Talk of the League being dead is as non- sensical as talk of General Franco as the Apostle of Freedom.

To-day's Thought- TROUBLE springs from tale- ness, and grievous toll from needless nasa.

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Wilbert Calome!--And You'lj Jump Out of Bed Fall of Vim and Vigour.

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B "Helps spite home" (the devil

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13 Frankness (7).

15 Musical Instruments (Scottish?)

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17 A useful grass (5).:

19 "Bring with thee.

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