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completely; to boycott her; refuse to
sell or transport any products to Italy;
refuse to buy from her. That would
be an economic WARMTH Italy
against the entire League member
ship, and it would no doubt cause
repercussions of a most unpleasant
sort.
Then also, there was the possibility
| that League powers, shut off the Medi-
terranean Sea so completely that Ital-
ian shipping would be paralyzed; the
Mediterranean might easily be bottled
up at Gibraltar, at the Suez Canal and
at the Dardanelles, and in that case
it would be an impossibility for Italy
to move a single troop or supply ship
across to Africa.
There are such possibilities, and
they are not empty threats; they are
steps that can be taken in accord
ance with the League covenant stipu-
lations.
All Against One.
Not one single power, great or
small, has shown or declared that it
sides with Italy in this crisis. To
the contrary-on the floor of the
League assembly the world witnessed
few days ago one of the most stir
ring spectacles in modern times, for
there they came-great and small ma
tiOns, one after the other, insisting
spected, and declaring that they were
willing to share the responsibility for
enforcing it. 1t was world opinion,
modified and organized for action, if
action would be needed.
The first voice in this chorus of
international solidarity came from
Great Britain, already interested in
the crisis to the extent of having sent
about hundred ships of her navy
into the Mediterranean-just to be on
the safe side. For that country spoke
Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign minister.
who made it plain that henceforth
the British attitude would be clear
and definite, and who asserted that
Great Britain would demand complete
respect for all the commitments made
by League members. He said that it
was the Leagues principal duty to
protect small nations as we'll as those
which are characterized as backward.
and he made the claim that under the
League covenant all members are I'M
der obligation to present a united
front against any aggressor.
Complete Support.
Then came the Scandinavian coun-
tries, including Finland, to support,
through Swedish Foreign Minister
Richard Sander, the viewpoint of
Great Britain; Belgium and, the Meth
erlands came next, likewise pledging
support in the effort of upholding the
League pact. South American states
joined the chorus, and from the South
African Union came the warning that
all of the Negro nations were likely
to rise in an attack upon the white
man if the Italian war against Eth
opia were permitted to be carried out.
A declaration in behalf of France
had been expected with much sus-
penSe, for it was known that the
French government recently had in
Italy. But ringing through the world
came the statement by Premier and
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval that
the French republic Internationally
and unhesitatingly joined the other
nations in their call for joint action.
In the same vein Russia spoke,
through her foreign minister, Maxim
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succession the Little Entente states,
Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, and
ROumania as we'll as the Baltic states,
Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
and the Balkan group, Turkey, Greece,
Bulgaria. This procession was joined
by canon de Valera. president of the
Irish Free State who pledged sup
port to any joint League action and
who Also suggested that a regular
peace conference be summoned to
avert war
Defiant Dictator.
From the United States, not a men,
Der Of the League, came a new state
ment issued by Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull who once more reminded
Italy as we'll as Ethiopia of the ex-
istence of the Briand-Kellogg treaty
against war-a document signed by
both of these nations as we'll as by
81 others
But to all this MussoliIii turned a
deaf ear. In Rome he summoned his
cabinet Tin which he himself occupies
eight posts} to a special session dur