It is interesting to read in the London "Daily Express" that ten countries who are members of the League of Nations have contributed no money towards its support, and so far have been "sleeping srs" who cannot be awakened to their duties by frequent appeals, This paper's Geneva correspondent says:—
two years. Argentine anc China has not paid any does for Pera three yours, Liberia for one among other fondiara hot paid 'a penny since the founds: Hon Bf the League although they send dcleenten othe anneal sweembiies the: League want it start a. dobe collecting crusade, in of for that all members should pay their Droportionate share of expenses. and hot depend) upon the British te pay the Hon's share.
Nobody will be very much surprised that poor old China has not Paid up. Any money she may have to spare for foreign service ought really to go to her famished diplomatic corps. The defaulting South American states, some of ich at least have plenty of money, more interesting. According to Whitaker's Almanac for 1924, there were in May, 1923, 52 members of the League and the expenditure for the year 1922 was estimated at £822,730. The original estimate for annual expenditure was, we think, round million sterling. What all this enormous outlay goes on, it would be very interesting to know still more so, what, it achieves. Evidently there are States. which think it achieves very little, not enough, at any rate, to be worth paying for. They are possibly not the only ones to hold thix dreadful heresy.
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