Geneva, May 15.
A and urging members to RESOLUTION expressing sympathy with the Chinese people give serious and sympathetic consideration to requests they may receive from the Chinese Government was adopted by the Council of the League of Nations yesterday before the close of its 101st session, The action of the Council followed speeches in support of the resolution by Dr. Wellington Koo, chief Chinese delegate; M. Georges Bonnet, the French Foreign Minister; Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secre= tary; and M, Suritch, the Soviet delegate.
The Council also voted a resolu. tion exempting Switzerland from all her obligations under the Covenant but maintaining her position as a member of the League in all other respects, Thirteen votes were cast in favour of the resolution, with Russia and China abstaining.
Georges Bonnet pointed out that' the result of the voting did not mean that any other member of the League could assume liberty of action on its own initiative without decision by the Council.
ust before the meeting broke up the Chilean" delegate formally nounced his country's resignation Irom the League. Referring to the Counel's resolution to the effect that was not competent to deal with Chile's proposals to reform the Covenant and was referring the matter to the next League Assembly September, the Chilean delegate sold that his Government could not wait for another long period before the achievement of what it regarded 'a8 indispensable to the life of the League, Tu the course of his speech, Dr. Koo observed. that he had. presented to the Council a number of modest desiderata and two concrete categories of measures for Its considera lon—measures for restraining Japa~ nese aggression and measures for aiding China in her resistance against this aggression.
The. text of the resolution before the Council, the Chinese delegate siuld, took Into consideration a few of hie proposals, but while it showed some improvement on previous resolutions it still, in the opinion of his Government, left a great deal to be desired to. meet the situation, Dr. Koo thanked the speakers for their words and their promise and Jencouragement, which would, he said, the received with great gratitude by the Chinese people.
Text of Resolution rhe full text of the resolution wa The Council, Having heard the statement by. the representative of China on the situation in the Far East and the needs for national defence In China, firstly, earnestly urges the members of the League of Nations to do their utmost to give effect to the recommendations contained in the previous resolutions of the Assembly and the Council In this matter.
"it earnestly urges the members take serious and sympathetic consideration of the requests they may receive from the Chinese Government.
"In conformity with the said resolutions, the Council expresses its sympathy with China in her +herole struggle for the maintenance of her Independence and territorial integrity, which are threatened by the Japanese invasion, and in the suffering which has, thereby, been inflicted on "secondly," the resolution goes on. "the Council recalls that the use of toxic gasses in war is condemned International Law, and cannot fail to meet with the reprobation of the lvilized world. It requests the governments of the states, which may be in a position to do 0, to communi-ate with the League any Information they may obtain on the subject."—Reuter.
Strengthen League Appeal For Help He was, however, prepared to accept the resolution in the confident hope that even China in her valiant struggle would be sympathetically considered and generously satisfied by fill members of the League who might bbe approached for the purpose, more particularly in assuring hor of fnancial and material aid and facilities in the purchase, transport and transit of arms and" military _supplies—fueilities which should in no case be ese than those she enjoyed before the beginning of the present hostilities by Japan, 'M. Bonnet said that the heroism of the Chinese people to maintain the Independence and integrity of their country. merited the admiration of the world. China, he declared, had shown herself worthy of the moral support the League had promised her by Its resolution, and France had, os far as possible, endeavoured to give her ald, and would take into serious consideration the recommendations contained In the present resolution. France was prepared further, Bonnet proceeded, to make a con siderable contribution to the work being undertaken by the League against epidemics "The courage and selflessness of the. Chinese people, he hoped, would find their reward in an equitable xottloment that would ensure the Togitimate aspiration of the Chinese people to develop their agelong London, May 10.
Proposalx to make the League of [Nations all-powerful against an agavesser were outlined by Mr. Winston Churchill In a speech at Manchester "The plan to ward off a devastating war, he said, tay in a single sentence Arm and stand by the Covenant of the League of Nations.
'Ho suggested that Great Britain and [France should say to smaller menaced states: "We are not going to help you if you are not going to help yourselves. Are you prepared to take' apeelal "service In defence of the Ten Well-Armed States "of we could rally ten well-armed slates bound to resist aggression," Mr, Churchill asserted, "we would be so strong that danger would be warded oft."
The Danubian and Balkan states, he declared, could be mopped up one by one, but together they were of He also mentioned Russia, Poland, and. the Baltic and Scandinavian Safexuards for Bertin Mr. Churchill said he did not mean the encirclement wf Germany. "We Jask "we security for ourselves," stated, "that we are not prepared to YY. Let her join the felup its privileges and
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