Evening star., 1935-09-14
Ententes Also
Pledge Aid
to League.
ANCLO.FRENCH
OFFER STUDIED
Ethiopia Would Be
Paid for Giving
Italy Land.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA. September II R.-
Canada and Soviet Russia, embracing
vast stretches Of territory on opposite
sides Of the globe. joined the rally
around the League Of Nations Gov
enant on the bitter ethiopian
quarrel today.
George Howard Ferguson, Canada's
representative at Geneva, told the
League Assembly Canada cannot agree
that any member of the League Is
warranted in resorting to war to en-
force its claims ain violation Of its
81 .emn pledges to seek and find a
peaceful settlement for every dispute. 4"
Honorable Solution Sought.
Canada hopes an honorable and
peaceful solution of the controversy
will yet be reached, he said, and
added:
IF unfortunately this proves not to
be the case, Canada will join other
members of the League in considering
how, by unanimous action, peace can
be maintained"
Spokesman for the Little Entente
the Balkan Entente, the Baltic states
and other nations of Europe joined
the rally, swelling into imposing pro-
portions the protest against an Ital-
ian invasion OF Ethiopia.
The Assembly reconvened this aft
ernoon in an atmosphere of great
excitement caused by the Italian cabi-
nets rejection of any possibility OF a
compromise solution Of the Italo-
Ethiopian conflict.
Work Seen Nullified.
One delegate declared it practically
nullifleS In advance what the COM
mittee of five is trying to do"
League officials. however, took q
calmer view of the situation. They
said the Italian communique must
not be taken too tragically, and sug-
gested it might be Just another
maneuver."
Maxim Litvinoff. Russia's spokes-
man, told the assembly that for his
nation there Is only the question of
defending the covenant of the League
as the instrument of peace"
Attacks Certain Pacts.
He warned, moreover. that the
covenant is not enough" and Gre
ated a sensation by saying that GER
tain bilateral non-aggression pacts
actually are designed for security and
aggression"
The Poles and GeMnans who heard
his address interpreted this remark
as an attack on the German Polish
treaty of non-aggression.
Litvinoff said that while Russia s
on-aggression pacts with her neigh
bors included a special clause for sus-
pending the pact If aggression were
committed by one of the parties
against third state, there are other
pacts which contain no such clause.
This was regarded as an allusion
to the Polish-German treaty.
Impunity for Attack.
The Soviet spokesman said that un-
der such pacts a signatory obtained
the facility for attacking with i'm
punity any third state"
mo wonder advocates Of such pacts
stand also for the locahzation OF
war" he added.
Fortunately. he said. the theory of
security and aggression on others
was common to but few countries
and "stigmatizes them before the
whole world as probable disturbers
of the peace"
AS he and the other speakers pledged
allegiance to the League it was un-
derstood in diplomatic circles that an
important factor of the scheme being
discussed by the five-powe- commit
tee for settlement of the Italo-
Ethiopian dispute is territorial ad-
justment."
The plan now under consideration
was understood to be an enlargement
OF the offer made by Anthony Eden
Of Great Britain in Rome to hand
ov: strip of British Somanland
territory to Ethiopia in return for
which Ethiopia would give part of its
land to Italy.
Envisages Anglo French Offer.
The new scheme, it was said, en-
visages Joint Anglo-French offer
OF strip of land, half in French and
half in British Somaliland, which
would enable Ethiopia to have access
to the sea.
In return Ethiopia would give Italy
a patch of territory in the southeast.
Emperor Halle Selassie would I'M
dertake to maintain a free port in
the newly acquired territory, thus pro-
viding access for new Italian settle
ment.
The plan was believed to be a part