Efforts Must Not Be Underestimated, M. Herriot Tells Socialist Colleagues in Paris FPRANCE is bound by duty and honour to enforce the Covenant of the League of Nati ions," M. Edouard Herriot, Minis ter ithout Portfolio and former Premier, declared on Friday in speaking before the Congress of the Radical Socialist Party in Paris, Havas reports.
"The French," he went on, should rejoice in Great Britain's support of collective sanctions, which the British rejected ten years ago" (when Britain refused to ratify the Protocol on Arbitration concluded at Geneva in 1924, at the time M. Herriot was Premier and Foreign Minister of France).
Referring to the attacks made against Britain's attitude in the Italo-Ethiopian affair, M. Herriot added: "We should not under-estimate British efforts, An Englishman hates to lie, When England says she has no personal interests in the present dispute, we should believe her.
We should not challenge the word of a British Minister or gentleman, When a British Minister say: 'Here is where we stand,' I full; believe him, "The real issue at stake," M.
Herriot concluded, "is not when ther we are pro-Italian or pro-British, but whether we stand for or against the League of Nations."
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