Evening star., 1935-08-15
.PESS|M|SM RULES
IN PARIS ON EVE Of
TR|-POWER PARLEY
Preliminary Conference Be.
tween Laval and AIoisi
DimS Peace Hopes.
ITALY Is STANDING FIRM
ON ETHIOPIAN PROGRAM
Mussolini Insists on Disarming
Halle Selassie and Expanding
His Colonies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, August l5-Programs for
war and peace in East Africa were
weighed today by Premier Laval Of
France and Baron Pompeo Aloisi OF
Italy as they conferred for an hour in
the formers Office today.
Their talk seemed only to deepen
the pessimism of officials.
Three Arguments Of Italy.
Premier Mussolini's right-hand man
came to the French government head
with three arguments:
I. Italy must protect Eritrea and
Italian Somaliland against wild and
dangerous nation (Ethiopia) by dis
arming it;
2. Italy must expand into colonies
as Great Britain and France hare
done:
3. Italy is starved for raw materials
and must develop her own supplies.
Answers of Laval.
To these arguments, Laval had the
following answer:
/. War would wreck Europe's long
drawn-out efforts for peace and, pos
sibly. even the League of Nations;
2. War would cost men and money
and create hatreds. although Mus
solini could attain his desires grad
ually and peacefully:
3. War would endanger or break
the Anglo-Italian control of Europe
Following his meeting with Aloisi,
Laval conferred with his ministry
experts. who are preparing arguments
and suggestions for further develop
ment. He gave them not only the
Italian suggestions. but also the
British as presented TO him yesterda,
by Anthony Eden, British minister
for League of Nations affairs.
Second Conference Arranged. q,
A second conference between Laval
and Eden was arranged for the after
noon to clear the ground for the form
al opening tomorrow of the converse
tons among Laval, Aloisi and Eden.
The British are calling these tri-
power conversations "the last chance
W u wal AlbO PCdOC OCAOl (
the League of Nations council meets
September 4 at Geneva.
Following his morning conference.
Premier Laval said only: "I had a
preliminary talk with Baron Aloisi.
Tomorrow morning there will be a
meeting Of the signatories Of the
three-power treaty of 1906"
by the treaty of 1906, Great
Britain. France and Italy guaran-
teed the integrity and independence
of Ethiopia.)
Laval Uses Every Persuasion.
Using all his famed powers of per-
suasion, the French premier sought
to reconcile Great Britain's proposed
solutions with 1taly's demands as a
prelude to the full dress three-power
negotiations beginning here tomorrow
Britain Is prepared to go as far as
possible in the way of exclusively
economic concessions and guarantees
to Italian interests in East Africa.
1t might even, informed circles said,
repeat its offer to cede Ethiopia a
port and a corridor through British
Somaliland.
Laval and Eden agreed, officials
said, that war between Italy and
Ethiopia, both members of the League
of Nations, would doubtless annul ef-
forts for a European peace pact sys-
tenn. Neither would commit himself
regarding even more serious conse-
quences.
A British spokesman. without dis
closing details of Eden's plan for set
tlement, said it had been given Laval
for study. The British object to
others calling Laval the mediator"
of the conversations, as it implies an
Italo- British quarrel that requires
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