Paris, a strong plea for support of the League of Nations was made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Speaking at Bradford, Mr. Cham~ berlain declared that Britain's strongest interest lay in the preervation of peace. It was, he said, the cardinal point in the Govern ment's policy to strengthen and develop the League by all the means {in their power as an instrument, and the only effective instrument, for obtaining international ce-operation.
"it was cacy to eritielse the League, Mr. "Chamberlain added, but the remedy for its weakness was to be found not in abandoning the League but rather in a patient endeavour to Dulld up its weak places, to improve methods and, if possible, to make 'a more efficient instrument in the future than it had been in the past—
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