The Archive · 1935

Executive Motion Passed

London, Oct. 2.

The Labour Party Conference at Brighton to-day carried by an overwhelming margin, a resolution sup~ porting the Executive's policy favour of the League of Nations applying sanctions in the event of war breaking out between Italy and Abyssinia, No fewer than 2,168,000 votes were east for the resolution as compared with only 102,000 against Tu winding up the debate on sanctions, Mr. Herbert Morrison, leader the London County Council, emphasized that the League, with all its Imperfections, was. the incipient super-government of the world and was the only good thing that cane out of the Great War.

He contended that military sanctions could not be ruled out.

If the League collapsed on this issue, he declared, it was more or ess finished indefinitely, He con-dered that all Crown Colonies should be under the League.

It did not follow that British Crown Colonies should no longer be under British protection, He still felt that the British were the most considerate Colonial administrators in the world—Reuter,

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