Polish Delegate's Proposal Prohibiting All Wars of Aggression Placed before Assembly: Dr. Stresemann's Speech on Peace Geneva, Sept. 8.
Vociferous applause punctuated Nigorous speech by 2M, Hambro, (Norway) at the Acsembly of the League of Nations to-day.
Frequently glancing in the direction of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, " the: speaker criticized the work of the Council. He spoke of the secret of "the council within the pulsory arbitration clause of the Hague Convention.
'The head of the Polish delegs'i: M. Sokol, then moved the Polish Proposals that "all wars of aggression remain prohibited. This Assembly declares that members' the League of Nations are under an obligation to conform with these principles. Consequently the Assembly calls members of the League to proceed withthe conclusion of non-mitted to the general Council and finally asked why the under-secretaries of the League only belonged to the Great Powers. He said that}
Norway admired the work of the] Secretariat but she would do even more if the Powers still outside were Drought inside, Many delegates rose and patted MIN. Hambro on the back as he reined to his seat, aggression pacts inspired by the idea that all pacific means ought to be employed for the settlement of differences of whatsoever nature: between them," with ination of the passage inviting members to conclude nongression pacts and also the notable difference that all wars be illegal, and not merely wars of agressior M, Sokal's proposals actually read The question of non-aggression pacts which was raised by Poland has now been put on paper in the form of an amended proposal, which has been handed to the heads of! the delegations of the Powers con cult cerned in the Locarno pacts.
The proposal declares: "All wars of aggression remain prohibited. This Assembly declares that_memders of the League are under an obligation to conform to this principle, Consequently, the Assembly calls on members of the League to proceed with the conclusion of none aggression puts inspired by the ful en that all pacific means ought to he employed for the settlement of differences of whatsoever nature that may arise between them.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, has ved a statement with regard to the Finnish proposal for pooling the funds of the Long to give financial ims of ager sion, The statement declares that he welcomes the proposal but aeceptance of such a scheme would involve heavy commitments, The} British Government would "require special powers from Parliament and it could not ask or expect such Powers to be granted unless Britain obtained some compensation for! her financial effort, such as a reduction of annamer While the scheme is a valuable contribution to the general question. of disarmament, the statement goes on, Sir Austen must reserve his decision until he sees the final outcome of the disarmament conference to be called by the League and the! extent to which the Finnish scheme commands the general support of members of the League.—Reuter.
Geneva, Sept. 9.
At the meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations to-Vandervelde, the head of Belgian delegation, continuing the Webate on the problem of security, declared that it was the duty of the Assembly to consider the proposals made by Holland and other countries based on the 1924 Protocol and to record the opinion that war banished and disarmament is indi ensable to the nations of the world, who not merely wanted guarantees but a real consciousness of security. He spoke with regret of the apparent division of victors and vanquished into two camps, Warm advocacy of peace and a jong expression in favour of dis. armament were the outstanding features of a speech by Dr. Streseman, whith was much applauded, Dr, Streseman described the Great War as the biggest evolutionary event for centuries. He. said that Germany completely agreed with Sir Austen Chamberlain and M. the international, community and: inspired by a firm will to maintain Peace and recognizing that a war of egression must never serve as a means of settling differences and believing that a solemn renunciation of all war is of a nature to create an atmosphere of general confidence and one favourable to progress in the work of disarmament, the Axsembly of the League of Nations declares.
(2) all war is and rer (2) all pacific means must bz! employed for the settlement of, international disputes, whatever} their nature.
Members of the League of Né tions are under obligation to con-turm with these principles."
Munificent Gift for Library The Council of the League of Nations hgs passed a resolution accepting the offer of funds up to) Goll $2,000,000 from an American group for the establishment of library in the interests of the)
Council of the Lo f Nations, and has requested the Assembly the League to confirm this ae-
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