The Archive · 1928

Security Committee

Berlin, Jan. 27.

'The German Government, in the course of a Memorandum' to the League of Nations Security "Committee, which is at present meeting at Prague, expresses the opinion that the work of the Committee should be practical, not theoretical.

The Memorandum urges the Com. for the Council of the League, whose duty, it says, is to prevent armed conflict.

It expresses the opinion that the effectiveness of all securities would he greatly strengthened if general disarmament were finally reached adding that the creation of groups of allies within the League with the object of protection against other members of the League might easily lead to a breach and hinder Joint action at times of crises. The German Government declares that the problem must be dealt with radically, If occasions of war and the question of military sanctions form the basis of the work of the Security Committee, it would be like trying to build a house from the downwards, the Memorandum concluded,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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