Evening star., 1935-11-12
.|TAL|ANSTHREATEN
TO QUIT LEAGUE IN
SANCTION PROTEST
Penalties Are Held Acts Of
Hostility, Justifying
ReprisaIs.
ROSS0 PRESENTS COPY
TO STATE Department
Sanctionists Are Requested to
Reveal Nature of Measures
They Are Planning.
Nv heAsSociated Press

BY the,Associated Press.
ROME November i2.-Italy today
implicitly threatened her withdrawal
from the League of Nations by note
protesting against the invocation OF
sanctions.
Italy, the document informed sane
zionist nations, has not wished until
now to disSociate herself from the
Geneva institution despite Italys OPP
position to the procedure followed to
her damage, because she desires to
prevent a conflict, such as that now
being considered. from leading to
more vast complications.
Cites Gravity of Consequences.
Therefore Italy the communication
added, is calling attention to the
responsibility" in the sanctionist
measures and the gravity of their
consequences.
The note stated that these sane
tions were undertaken without Italy's
participation in the deliberations and
without any information as to their
nature being communicated to her.
(The decision to impose sanctions
against Italy was made by the League
of Nations at Geneva)
Italy warned all nations participat.
ing in sanctions against her that such
action constitutes true act OF
hostility, which amply justifies in.
avltable Italian counter measures"
Identical copies of the protest were
sent to countries adhering to the
Geneva proposals for action against
Italy for its campaign of conquest in
Ethiopia.
italian Ambassador Augusta Rosso
last night presented copy of the
protest to the State Department for
the information OF the American
Government The United States is
not a League member and no reply
IS called for from Washington.)
The protest the text Of which was
made public heer today, also demands
ed of the nations addressed informa.
tion as to the nature of the measures
they planned to take to make sane
tions effective.
SAtCo VI hNNohs
The italian government, while 1t
has taken every disposition TO prevent
the situation thus created (by sanc-
tions) from developing any further
dangers, believes it to be its duty to
call vigorously the attention of the
governments of members of the
League of Nations to the responsibility
implied in the measures. in the course
of application and to the gravity OF
their consequences" the note said.
The Italian government will be
pleased to know in what way the
governments involved intend in their
free and sovereign character to con-
Duct themselves in view of the restric-
tive measures proposed against Italy,"
the note concluded.
The text of the protest note GOV.
cred five typewriter pages. 1t re-
viewed in detail each sanctionist
measure included in the Geneva pro-
posal and commented on the signifi-
canoe of each.
The document was prefaced with
comment on the League of Nations
deliberations preceding the imposition
of sanctions. Italy's contention that
these proceedings we're illegal and ill-
considered were reiterated in the pre-
! face
Two Italian Contentious.
THE Italian government" the Tote
set forth, contends, first, that the
reasons adduced by the Italian mem.
orandum were not given adequate ex-
animation and, secondly, that the pact
of the League had not been applied
in sections applicable to the situation
involved"
Existence Of slavery in Ethiopia and
the measures taken by Italian mill
itary authorities to abolish it were
cited in the note.
Raising of the arms embargo
against Ethiopia. Italy asserted, can
only aggravate the menace to her East
African colonies, which the memoir
andum to Geneva denounced.
This measure, far from speeding
(See SANCTIONS, Page So