Geneva, July 1.
The best method of preventing war the "unequivocal application of the revie Leon Blum, the French Premier, in an impressive speech this morning before the Assembly of the League of Nations, in which he de-talled the polices 6¢ the French Government obtained by aggre recognized. jovernment, he said, demands first, the universality of the League; second, the enforcement of the Covenant; and third, maintenance of peace andthe outlawing of wat Immediately following the Colum= bian speaker, M, Blum took the floor and read the declaration of the French Government, First answering the attacks of thoss claiming that French influence 1s on the decline, the French Premier proclaimed that it was untrue that the workers' movement had put, the country in jeopardy, "Certainly," he said, "Our public life is ardent, but most ardent people neither cowardly nor egotistical
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