John Simon said he felt deeply, as all members felt, that the League had suffered a serious setback, Financial and economic sanctions had not preserved a member of the League' against external aggression, The effort to substitute international erner for brute force had failed, The Government and its supporters, he proceeded, felt this injury to the cause of international morality as deeply as the Opposition.
Tt had been argued that sanctions should have been applied earlier, but the terms of the Covenant provided that they could not be employed until war broke out, and, in fact, it was Mr. Eden more' than anyone else who had speeded up action.
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