Evening star., 1935-09-28


italian delegation to the League OF
Nations, left today for Rome.
Ry the Associated Press.
ROME, September 28.-Benito MUS
solinis Italian cabinet today declared
temporary loyalty to the League o.
Nations and made a new gesture OF
peace toward Great Britain.
In q meeting of vital import to tine
world and Ethiopian situations, the
ministers decided Italy will not aban-
don the League until the League it
self assumes full responsibility for
measures against Italy, and then oe-
clared:
"Italy's policy has no immediate or
remote aims which could lnJure Great
Britain's interests"
Ready to Negotiate.
The government, cabinet COM
nnunioue disclosed, has communicated
to Great Britain its readiness to nego-
tiate for further accords which would
harmonic with the legitimate inter-
ests of Great Britain in East Africa -
At the same time II Duce and his
ministers spurned Ethiopia's pro-
posed withdrawal of troops from her
frontiers, and asserted Italian troop
movements to Africa are being &C
celerated."
Yet the cabinet announced the
Fascist government declares in the
most solemn manner it will avoid
everything that could extend the
Italo- Ethiopian conflict to a wider
field"
However, the cabinet declared in a
eommunique that the proposals ad-
vanced by the League Of Nations Com
mittee of Five for peaceful settle
ment of the Ethiopian row took no
account of Italy's necessities for ex-
pansion and security, and ignored
completely all treaties which at diff
ferent times, from 1889 to 1906 and
1926, recognize the priority OF Italian
interests in Ethiopia"
The communique, declaring Ethiopia
has completed mobilization of all its
forces, with the intention so declared
by Ras Emperor Halle Selassie) of
attacking Italy's colonial frontiers"
accused the League of Nations OF
'locking itself up in formal labyrinths
Of procedure"
Before the cabinet met, authorita-
tive sources said Italy has been de
ceived" again by the League of Ma
tions and once again has withdrawn
into It's shell-ready to fight any and
allcomers.
Cabinet States Policies.
Before adjourning the cabinet laid
down the lines of its conduct in the
immediate future as follows:
/. Italy will not abandon the League
Of Nations until the day when the
League itself fully assumes response
bility for measures" which strike at
Italy.
2. After having received a COM
munication in cordial terms of a
verbal message from Sir Samuel
Hoare, British foreign secretary, con-
veyed by the British Ambassador to
Rome, Sir Eric Drummond, the cabi-
net declares yet again-as it has al
ready done at Bolzano-that Italy's
policy has no immediate or remote
aims which could injure Great
Britain's interests.
3. The Fascist government declares
IN the most solemn manner it will
avoid everything that could extend the
1talo- Ethiopian conflict to a wider
field.
In rejecting Selassie's offer to Ge-
heva to withdraw his troops distance
Of 80 kilometers from the Italian
frontiers, the cabinet stated this "ab-
solutely cannot be taken seriously by
the Italian government or by any
government worthy Of such name"
Strategic Aim Charged.
The Ethiopian offer, the cabinet
said, had "a strategic purpose, not a
pacific one.
1T was designed to better conceal
the preparations going on in the inte-
rior, and to permit the Ethiopian
forces to intrench themselves in more
reliable positions"
In view Of this situation, the cabinet
added, "the departure of our divisions
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