Geneva, Sept, 20.
riy decision on the part Canada to participate in war will have to be taken by the Parliament of the people of Canada in the light of all existing circumstances," declared Mr. W. L, Mackenzie' King, Prime Minister of the Dominion, In outlining the attitude of his country towards. intervention in a possible war before the Assembly of: the League of Nations to-day.
Discussing the question of reform of the League Covenant, Mr. kenzie King reviewed the position taken up by successive Canadian Governments on the subject. This did not mean, he said, that the Canadian people would, In'no elreum= stances, be prepared to share action fagainst_an aggressor, but automatic commitments. to the application of force were not practical politics, Canada, he continued, reaffirmed her adherence to the fundamental principles of the Covenant, but did not believe that formal amendment of the Covenant was now either possible or necessary.
Canada approved the suggestion that the Covenant should be detached from the Trealy of Versailles, but the restoration of confidence' and goodwill among the nations of Europe was essential If the League was 10 perform its tasks.
The frst step, therefore, was to confer with the' object of' bringing in nations which were outside the League and of ultimately achieving universality of mombership.—Reuter,
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