London, Jan. 17.
An emphatic declaration that' members of the League of Nations should able to. bring home to any aggressor that peaceful negotiation was not merely the best but the only Successful way of removing dis~ conten, was made by Mr. Anthony Eden to-day in his first public ad-Jaress since he became Foreign Sccretary.
Mr. Eden, who is going to Geneva represent. Great Britain at the forthcoming. meeting of the Council lof the League of Nations, at which the Italo-Abyssinian conflict ts to be considered, spoke before a meeting in his constituency, the Warwick and [Leamington division of Warwickshire.
"Collective security is not to be won easily," he declared. "It will require unremitting work and sacri fees from all. There was, on the whole, good team work in 1985, but there" must be stil better in' 1936
Jand even better in 1937. There must foe no mood of self-complacency on Jour part, or on the part of any other member' of the League—no resting! fon laurels, for the laurels are not yet won, "The effort we shall all have to: the people of this country. thinks it worth making. The leadership of JGreat Britain is no insignificant cle~ ment. Let there be no faint hearts, bout let "there be realism. Tt is in that "spirit 1 shall try to approach the immensely dimMeult task. that ies ahead."
"We must all look beyond the immediate conflict with which the [League 1s confronted and keep a, firm hold of a few simple essentials," Mr. [Eden continued. "I suggest that two [such essentials are:
Agaression ought not to be'allowed to succeed: and Members of the Lcogue, acting to-order that aggression may be effec tively discouraged, elasticity in order that some of the causes of war may bbe removed through the promotion.
consent, of the necessary changes when the time Is ripe for them to, take place.
These are two complementary aspects of security, and the more [certainly the system' can comprehend them, the more firmly will It establish its own authority, and the more surely will it draw others within ite orbit,
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