By Tute0v0R eC. Hume x a "North-China Daily New Special Correspondent Geneva, Aug. 8, 1926, It took exactly four minutes, after all those months of waiting, to elect Germany a member of the League of Nations this morning. At 11.45 the Secretary called out the first name on the roll for- the "appel which wa to register the great decision. "South Africa, Yes Albania, Oui—Australia,—Yes.."" And soit was that, in a very real and spectacular way, the voices of. 48 nations sounded forth in the Salle de la Reformation. At 11.49 am. President Nintchiteh, of Jugo-Slavia, rapped on the desk: "Thereby proclaim the admission of Germany into the League of Nations by @ unanimous vote."
No More League of Victors 1918 in the direction of healing pa wounds, the glaring fact remained that the Lesgue was set up by the same Treaty of Versailles which branded Germany og solely guilty and responsible for the Great War. And 20 long as the leader of the "vanquished" nations was excluded from Lo: easy to the organization was no more than a segue of Victor." With the entry of Germany as a League member, on a footing of absolute equality, distinctions of "victor" and "vanquished?" pass into the background, and the world may well feel that a great step has been taken in the direction of sincere international cooperation in the interest of world peace. And the immediate result of today's vote is to carry into effect certain vital" provisions of the famous Locarno agreements, which are so intimately bound up with the future security of Europe, The casual observer, however, must have been struck by fact that the eloquent discussion in the Assembly this morning was concerned ith question apparently quite separate from that of Germany's entry into the League. In reality this other question, raised in connexion with the problem of Germany's entry, may ultimately spell success or failure for the League of Nations.
The question ig nothing less than whether the League is merely another political grouping of the old-fashioned type, based upon intrigues, bargains, bribes end compromise; or whether it is an honest attempt. to build something new in the way of a diplomatic structure on the ruins which the war left of the old new structure which is sincere in its acceptance of the principles set, forth in the Preamble to the Long Covenant, which look forward to international cooperation rather than, to mutual confidence and ince, rather than chronic ssu picion and struggle.
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