Geneva. Sept. 20.
Regret that hostilities had broken qut in the Far East when the omens of ce-operation looked most auspicious, was expressed by Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, in an address to-day before the Assembly of the League of Nations.
Tt must be unhappily admitted, he added, that none of the efforts of third parties had availed.. If cooperation had been pursued, benefit would have accrued, whereas now there was untold suffering among millions and a blow had been struck at trade prosperity throughout the Far East.
"We are meeting," Mr. Eden declared, "at a time of profound international anxiety, when people want peace but seem to be as far as ever from attaining it. In two parts of the world, south-west Europe and the Far East, war is being waged as furiously as at any time in history."
course of these events, he proceeded, was felt even by nations. not engaged in the conflicts, such as Great Britain, which had at present an aggregate tonnage of warships building totalling 450,000 tons.
Although warfare in different parts of the world had resulted in territorial, gains for one country at the expense of another, it had also resulted in the impoverishment of the victor to an extent only less than that of the vanquished,
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