The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-08
sibility that an effort to penalize Italy would wreck the league.
 Nations Are Ready

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 Nations Are Ready
 Yet the statesmen of 50-odd na- tions who were arriving on every train today left no doubt that they were ready to apply to Fascist Italy the penaltines of the covenant.
 When the assembly - the con- gress of the league at which all members are represented -- meets tomorrow, it is foreshadowed that a big committee will be named at once to recommend specific eco- homie and financial penalties which all members will be asked to apply.
 On this committee, all of Italy's neighbors will be represented - erland, France and Spain--accord- Greece, Jusoslavia, Austria, Switz- ing to plans.
 On them will hinge the failure or success of the leagues first ef- fort to penalize a warning nation, for, If Italy cannot. be cut off from land, 1t cannot be successfully pen aliZed.
 Even as delegates gathered today the Greek government telegraphed it's chief delegate, Foreign Minister Demetriot MaXimos, that Greece, mindful of its obligations, will par Cicipate unhesitatingly in penalties.
 In Force Next Week
 It was predicted that by early next week the penalties decided upon will be actually in force.
 Men who have made a study of penalties in preparation for just such crisis as this, went to work today to devise scheme which would be at once practicable and effective.
 They are experts of the big dele- gations and their recommendations will be available for the official as- sembly penalties committee.
 Enforcement of the penalties will be matter of choice for members of the league. Their willingness to dare, the wrath of Benito Mussolini will be the final test of the leagues strength and the statesmen's own courage. But the atmosphere today was one of firInness.
 The league for the first time in It's history, is operating under Arti- cle XVI-Whose force kept the United States out of the league of which Woodrow Wilson was the father.
 Any nation which resorts to war in violation of the covenant, thiG article says, shall be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the league.
 Severance of Trade
 League members by the article undertake to subject the aggressor nation immediately to severance of all trade or financial relations, to prohibit all intercourse by their na- tions with nations of the aggressor, to prevent all financial commercial or personal intercourse not only be- tween their own nations and those Of the aggressor but between the covenant breaking state and nation alS of any other state. members or not--such as the United States, Japan, Germany and Brazil.
 Many delegates favored an agree ment. for start, not to buy any goods from Italy. This would grad ually deprive her of foreign ex- change-already a problem-and prevent her. ultimately, from buy ing raw materials in sufficient ma tions coopcrated.
 The thirteen nations who voted in the council to declare Italy an ag- gressor bound themselves by the vote to join in penalties. They are Argentina. Australia, Chile, Dem mark, Ecuador, France, Great Bri- tain, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Spain, Turkey and Russia.
 Penalty Committee
 The big penalties committee to be appointed by the assembly will operate under an assembly reSolu- ton of 1921. Providing the steps to be taken to insure cooperation of non-rnember states. Therefore the league may seek the support of the United States, Japan, Germany and Brazil.
 The first step toward seeking this cooperation was taken last night, immediately after the council vote, when the United States government was notified that the text of the committee reports on which the council acted, and the minutes Of its own meeting. would be broad- cast on the leagues wireless, and was asked to pick up the broadcast on the governments station at An napolis, as was done during the MAnchurian crisis.
 It was believed that similar non- fications were addressed to other non-league states.
 As for .hc United States, league leaders believe that President Roosevelt by his neutrality proc-