1 OCTOBER 1927, page 12

League Finances.

The most unsatisfactory feature about the League at the moment is its finances. This year for the first time work definitely planned, and the desirability of which is......

Understanding The British Point Of View.

That has been one encouraging symptom. Another has been the steady swing from disunion to unity. At the end of the Assembly's first week Sir Austen Chamberlain's speech seemed......

The League Of Nations

An Assembly Balance-Sheet CN one point everyone in Geneva seems to be agreed— that the League of Nations Assembly, which as I write is in articulo mortis, has been remarkably......

The Problem Of Disarmament.

Another proof of the Assembly's vitality was its resolve to press forward the work of disarmament, undeterred by the failure of the League's own Preparatory Commission to reach......

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THE ECONOMIC CONFERENCE IN RETROSPECT. One other evidence of solid purpose in the League was the discussion on the conclusions of the Economic Conference held at Geneva in the......

" Lower Tariffs And Lower Armaments."

What the purpose of the Eighth Assembly amounts to (for an Assembly does not achieve things, it only plans them) is lower tariffs and lower armaments. The lower tariffs are......