Evening star., 1935-10-15
Geneva Studies
Key Product
Embargo.
NINE ITALIAN.
NEEDS LISTED
Aid Is Considered
for States Hit
by Sanctions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, October 15.-The League
of Nations Subcommittee for Eco
nomic Sanctions decided in principle
today to recommend an embargo
against the shipment into Italy of
key" products-materials used in the
manufacture of war munitions
Tie committee then proceeded to
draw up a specific list of products
which Premier Mussolini must have
If he is to continue the manufacture
Of armaments and supplies for his
forces In East Africa.
The tentative list included: Alumi-
mum. zinc. copper. nickel. tin, coal,
WOOL manganese and gasoline.
Experts armed with voluminous
masses Of statistics laid bare the
arteries of world trade with Italy and
examined into the possibilities Of ap-
plying tourniquets to stop the flow
of that trade.
Roosevelt List Examined.
Meanwhile a subcommittee of mill
tary experts examined President
Roosevelt's list of implements of war
and decided to change a few details
in definitions of specific arms men,
toned in the list upon which the
United States has placed an embargo
against both Italy and Ethiopia.
At the same time the League under
took the first practical organization
of financial sanctions.
League statesmen turned to the
pressing problems of aiding nations
which would suffer themselves in act
ing against Italy and Of putting a
financial blockade into effect imme-
diately.
A subcommittee of the League staff
for sanctions against Italy met to dis
cuss providing economic aid to any
small state which might suffer loss
with Italy as the sanctions campaign
swept around the world.
Eden Urged Creation.
Rumania. Greece and Switzerland
inquired anxiously about such aid
Anthony Eden, British minister for
League affairs, recommended crea-
ton Of the subcommittee, which held
its first meeting today to look into this
problem.
Paragraph three of the Covenant
article XVI provides that League
states will mutually support one an
other in financial and economic meas
ures undertaken under this article in
order to minimize the loss and incon-
venience resulting from the above
measures (sanctions)."
The offensive on the financial front
marked the second phase of the sane.
tions campaign.
The first phase OF the drive already
found practical expression in Eden's
announcement that Great Britain hac
officially lifted its arms embargo
against the East African empire, and
that its embargo on arms to Italy
would be maintained.
Third Phase Begins.
A third phase Of the campaign be.
came evident-this time involving
harsher economic measures-in a de-
cision by the committee of Is Of the
general sanctions staff to study appli.
cation of embargoes on raw materials
and products necessary 70 Italy fol
continuance Of hostllities.
Another inquiry, it was announced
officially, would be undertaken fol
"the cessation of Italy's exports tc
countries which are members of this
League"
A separate subcommittee was named
to study a buy nothing from Italy
plan, just as similar groups were
created to handle the problem of COM
pensation for states suffe, ing dispro-
portionately under sanctions, and to
look into constitutional and legal diff
culties Of certain states in applying
sanctions.
The complexity of committees and
subcommittees caused the association
Of correspondents accredited to the
League to appeal to the general stat
for sanctions to hold at least some Of
its meetings in public.