The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-04
Secretary
CANCELLATION OF
 OIL GRANT HELPS
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 to abandon the project and had mo- tified the Emperor Halle Selassie. Thus ended. apparently, the near-participation by American in- terests in the Italo- Ethiopian con- | fist which many European states men fear threatens general Euro- pean confagration.
 Revealed Secret Hull said, George $. Walden, l chairman, and H. Dundas, vice. 1 president, of the Standard Vacuum Company, had called at the state department upon their own initia- tive and revealed their company was the owner of the vast oil con- cession granted the African Ex- ploration and Development Com- pany, a subsidiary.
 | State department officials made no secret of the fact that they re- garded the call of Walden and Dundas as a stroke of luck for the department. Until they arrived lit- tie or nothing was known concern ing the real financial affiliations of the African Exploration and De- velopmnet Company, Delaware corporation.
 Three Nations Convene.
 Geneva, Sept. A. (UP) - Great Britain, France and Italy entered a League of Nations council meet ing today agreed on the first prob- lem to be considered in the Italian Ethiopian dispute.
 Anthony Eden of Britain, Pierre Laval of France and Baron Pom peo Aloisi of Italy, at hotel con- , ference decided that Eden should submit to the council joint report on the failure of negotiations at Paris at which the three countries tried to settle the dispute between Italy and Ethiopia.
 It was agreed that after the report, Eden, Laval and Aloisi In turn should make brief statements of position. Dr. Gaston Jeze, rep resenting Ethiopia, may also speak.
 If time permitted, 1t was agreed, Aloisi then should present Italy's case memorandum of more than | 100 pages. Otherwise the memor- andum will be submitted tomorrow | Many COn1cfcnces. l Conferences of all sorts preceded the meeting at which the council came to grips at last with the crisis which has threatened to up- set the whole postwar peace struc- ture of Europe.
 Laval and Eden conferred. Then Aloisi joined them. Later Eden saw Dr. Jeze, Stanley Bruce of Austra- lia and Joaquin de Vasconcellos of Portugal, representing their coun- tries on the council.
 What seemed to be the most feverish activity in recent league history resigned in the league cor riders and in hotel lobbies. Scores of detectives protectively trailed statesmen and watched in hotels and railway stations for possible terrorists. Batteries of photogra- phers grouped every where and as fast as they pictures were taken, airplanes sped off to all capitals and to transatlantic ports with them.
 League members welcomed the announcement that the state de- partment had obtained cancellation of the Standard oil concession in Ethiopia. They felt it clears the atmosphere and eliminates misun- derstanding which might have com plicated the councils work.
 Some believed 1t strengthened Britain's hand, because it proves tho concession was granted solely to Americans, so that the Italians could not charge the British with merely pursuing selfish aims while pretending to defend the covenant. The memorandum said Ethiopia still owes Italy S40,000 lire ($68,- 460) for munitions purchased shortly before the drafting of the 1880 Italian French British treaty regulating the importation of arms into Ethiopia.
 The total value of such pur- 100000 lire ($154,850) in sup plies which the Ncgus is now threatening to use against Italy,
 They included 1000 militia rifles. 1000 machetes, "A machine guns. 50 automatic pistols, $50 automatic rifles and 3,000,000 rounds of am- intuition.
 Charges Of Italy. | Rome, Sept 4-UP)-The Ital- ian memorandum on Ethiopia, to be submitted to the League Coun- ell at Geneva. charges Ethiopia openly. wilfully and systemati-" cally has violated all its pledges and treaties with Itay, 1t was dis closed today.
 The memorandum said the Ethiopian violations appear to be in accordance with a well-fixed program.
 An 18-page summary of the me- morandum was made public. It affirmed that Ethiopia continuous ly has trampled with impunity on Italian diplomatic and consular representatives for 40 consecutive years.
 | Ethiopia also was blamed for endangerlng the lives and property of Italian subjects, whose efforts and initiative of an economic char acter have been permanently i'm peded.
 The memorandum said there have been frequent attempts or the lives and property of Italian subjects in their own territory.
 Ethiopia was blamed for refus. ing to delimit the frontiers of the Italian colonies. which has resulted in Illicit occupation of Italian ter. ritories by Ethiopia"
 Ethiopia, the memorandum al. legged, has imported large quant. ity of war materials in the past few years, and the supply has beer augmented by smuggling, which ha, increased considerably in those years.
 | People of Britain have paid $2,602,500,00O for National Saving,