Evening star., 1934-12-08
Aim in Staying
to End Peace,
He Says.
BENES ISSUES
"WAR" THREAT
'Anti-TerrOr Pact Is
Urged Before
League.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, December s. France
dramatically resumed discussion OF
the Central European conflict before
the League of Nations Council today
with a declaration of Foreign Minis
ter Pierre Laval that ''in this grave
affair France stands beside Yugo-
slavia.''
Amid an impressive silence in the
Council chamber, Laval said that in
striking King Alexander 1t was peace
they sought to strike
1T was the work of Alexander they
sought to destroy" he continued dra-
matically. This work subsists and
depends upon us as the Council of
the League Of Nations to see that
peace shall not be placed in peril"
AIIudes to Saar Question.
Laval, cooperating with the great
powers of Europe in efforts to prevent
the Yugoslav- Hungarian dispute from
becoming a major crisis, demanded
that the League of Nations justify the
high confidence reposed in it.
Turning to the Saar question, the
French foreign minister, alluding to
what he called the sudden decision
to send international forces into the
area, said this indicated that the
League, in neutralizing the material
forces OF its members as posses was
able to place obstacles before the dis
rupting Of peace and order.
To-day it is matter of applying
the Leagues high moral authority to
give Yugoslavia that satisfaction to
which she Is entitled to draw from the
outrage at Marseille the lesson that
international solidarity must render
impossible in the future similar
crimes" Laval said.
Cites Yugoslav Charges.
He recalled that Yugoslavia seeks
to prove that political refugees from
that country were able to create a
terrorist organization upon Hungarian
territory with the completely Of Hun
garian authorities, which was even
engaged in military exercises.
Laval declared the Council would
find IN the League Covenant itself the
directing principle needed to accom-
plish its work of justice and peace.
He said this was contained in article
10, under which members undertook
to respect and preserve the territorial
integrity and political independence
OF all the others.
Laval then recommended new
international arrangement for the ef-
fective repression of political crimes
and said his government reserved the
right to submit concrete propositions.
The League resumed its efforts to
bring peace in the tense Yugoslav-
Hungarian situation with the threat
of war" to defend the integrity of
the Little Entente echoing in its ears.
Dr. Eduard Benes, foreign minister
Of Czechoslovakia, provided a senSa-
ton at yesterdays session in his dec
laration that the nations of the Little
Entente - Czechosloyakia, Rumania
and Yugoslavia-were prepared to
fight for their unity on the battlefield
II the occasion should arise.
Committee to BE Named.
After todays session has given op-
portunity for further exchanges of
opinion, the Council was expected to
name q committee to draw up recon-
mendations for solution of the Balkan
crisis.
The formal issue before the Council
was Yugoslavia's charges that Hun
gary was implicated in the assassina-
tion Of King Alexander because it
had harbored the band of interna-
tional terrorists who plotted his death.
Extreme precautions were taken to-
day at the League Palace to protect
statesmen attending the Council ses-
sion against any possible terroristic
activities. The building was swarm
ing with detectives, and photogra pliers
were refused admission to the Council
chamber, reportedly because it was
feared firearms might We concealed
in camera. Officials denied that the
restriction was made for this reason
An international conference on
methods of combating terroristic activ-
tiles was regarded as a possible out
come of the Councils deliberations.
An international agreement to fight
bands of aSsassins was advanced by
Tewfik Rushdi Bey, the Turkish dele
gate.
Voicing his approval of such an
agreement. DR.. Benes said "if such
treaty existed today between the Little
Entente and Hungary, the terrorist
acts of which Yugoslavia was victim
would make Hungary the aggressor
and the Little Entente would have the
right to defend themselves by their
armed forces"
The assassination of Alexander be-
fore the formation of the League, DR..
Benes said. would have meant that
war between Yugoslavia and Hungary
would have been a "dolorous and hor-
rible reality"
Plot Seen In America.
Denying his country's completely in
the assassination, Thor Eckhardt,
Hungarian delegate, asserted the Kings
death was plotted not in Hungary, but
In America. He later said that he had
been informed the Yugoslav ruler had
been sentenced to death" in meetings
Of Croats in Youngstown, Ohio, and
Buenos Aires.
The Council was scheduled to re-
sumo consideration of the Balkan dis
pute at $50 pm. (9:30 am, Eastern
standard time).
Pierre Laval, Frances foreign min
lister, was expected to present the views
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