Evening star., 1935-07-11
League Council to Be Called
Within Three Weeks to
Attempt Peaceful Solution
of Bitter Dispute.
STRIFE is UNJUSTIFIED,
COMMONS IS INFORMED
Sir Samuel Hoare Makes Clear
England's Refusal to Act Alone
as Peacemaker-Four Nations
Unite in Banning Munitions
Sale to Selassie.

Todays developments in the Italian
Ethiopian situation included the fol-
lowing:
Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign sec
retary, told the House of Commons
today that Italy's need for expan-
sion and complaints against Ethiopia
did not justify her going to war.
Four European nations. where war
munitions are manufactured for
sale abroad, were reported today to
be holding up or fatty refusing to
ship arms to Ethiopia, which fears
an invasion by Italy.
The nations mentioned are Great
Britain, France, CZechoslovakia and
Denmark.
At Geneva, League of Nations sources
said special session Of the Council
probably would be called within
three weeks at Ethiopia's request to
attempt the solution of the Italo-
Ethiopian conflict.
In Rome, Premier Mussolini told a
group of 100 high officers of the
Fascist Militia, previous to their
departure for East Africa, that he
was determined on complete
solution of the conflict with
Ethiopia.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 1l.-Sir Samuel
Hoare, foreign secretary, declared be-
fore the House of Commons today
that he did not feel Italy's need for
expansion and complaints against
Ethiopia were sufficient cause for war.
The foreign secretary said he ad-
mitted the need of and the British
understanding of Italian overseas ex-
pansion, but that still such need was
insufficient for hostilities.
He pledged that England would not
abandon amy reasonable chance
which may offer itself for helping
prevent a disastrous war"
Sir Samuel refused to divulge the
lines being adopted toward this end,
but he, nevertheless, assured the leg
isIators that there was no foundation
for rumorS that the government had
asked the French to join blockade
against Italy or that Great Britain
was preparing some isolated form of
coercion"
Will Act With Others.
He said Great Britain was willing
TO accept her full share of collective
responsibility and fidelity to the
League of Nations and its principles.
Well-informed sources said today
that the British government was
holding up the granting of export
licenses for the shipment of munitions
to Ethiopia.
The statement was taken as an in
dication that Great Britain was join
ing other arms manufacturing coun-
tries in Withholding war materials
from Ethiopia.
Reports from France, CZechoslo-
Vakia and Denmark previously have
indicated that those nations have
halted shipments of arms to the
African Empire.
Authoritative quarters said that the
final British decision on the granting
of arms export licenses had not been
reached, but that at least two appli-
cations for them had not been grant,
ed while the question is being con-
sidered.
The applications concerned were
received within the last 10 days, after
Ethiopia found her supplies of arms
from other places had been shut off.
Government sources said Sir Sam
uels statement emphasized Great
Britain's desire for peace, not only in
East Africa but throughout the world,
and affirmed its belief in a collective
system of security.
Sir Samuel's first declaration of the
foreign policy of Prime Minister STAN
(See ETHIOPIA, Page s.