According to information from London the figures announced by Havas as closing the League of Nations Union "straw vote" referandum are merely the preliminary felurns fora part of England. Roughly they show a majority 0 59 to 1 in favour of Great Britain's continued membership of the League fand smaller, though overwhelming, majorities in favour of a reduction of armaments and the prohibition of] Private trafic in arms. As. barely £69,000 votes were collected, the result vould mean nothing in the light of the declared Intention of the Union which was to distribute ballot papers 25,000,000 British men and women of over 18. Tt should be added, how-fever, that the plan, as outlined in 'November's issue of "Headway," was for a campaign by a National Declaration Committee representing thirty different organizations to cover the whole of the British Isles. London's verdict was expected to be' the. frst received. Perhaps the Rgures telegraphed relate to London alone but even then they are 0 small as to be of little practice value. It would be ture Geseribe the plan as a failure until further details come to hand. At first blush it looks a5 if England does not take kindly fo the "straw vote" process.
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