A general invitation will soon be sent by members of the League of Nations to the United States asking that Government to join the League in order to strengthen it against further blows, The London Daily Chronicle stated in a dispatch dated from Geneva. At the same time invitations will also be issued to other nations in the Americas who do not belong to the League, the paper stated, adding that the sensational Polish declaration aroused a desire to strengthen the League against further blows which shake the authority of that body.
The entire London press repudiated and condemned the Polish action as a unilateral denunciation of international treaties.
Even The London Daily Mail, organ of the nationalistic Lord Rothermere, said that if Poland is allowed to tear up the minority treaties implemented in the Versailles Treaty, then nothing can prevent other nations from acting in the same manner and bringing about the doom of the League.
The London Daily Herald, Laborite paper, said editorially that the Polish declaration must be attributed to the passive conduct of the League, which watched the barbarous treatment of the Jews in Germany and did nothing against the Nazis. The paper advocated generalizing the minority treaties in order to deprive Poland of an excuse for dropping her minority treaty obligations.
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