Evening star., 1935-09-16
BOYCOTT is PLANNED.
League Members Discuss Commercial
Ban on Italy.

Ban on Italy.
ey the Associated Press.
GENEVA. September l6.-Reliable
sources disclosed tonight that pre-
liminary plan for an economic boycott
against Italy in case that nation
should launch an unprovoked war are
being worked out among certain mem
bers of the League of Nations.
Earlier. three small nations-Pan-
anna. Haiti and the Irish Free State
urged the League to fulfill its RESPONSE
bilities in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute
The Irish Free State and Panama
warned the League assembly that II
1t could not fulfill these responsible
ties it should admit its futility and It's
unworthiness to exist further as a
peace organization.
Gen. Alfred Memours, the delegate
of Haiti, added the warning: THE
colored peoples of the world are
watching. =. The period of colonial
wars is closed"
From reliable sources came report
that the British delegation to the
League had suggested the idea of a
general economic blockade against
Italy in case she attacks Ethiopia and
that the plan for such a blockade
had already been Professionally mapped
out.
The suggestion, regarded as a pre-
iiminary and precautionary project,
was understood to be sequel to the
pledge given by Premier Laval OF
France that, if the worst came to the
worst. France, loyal to the League
covenant, would be disposed to par
ticipate in collective economic and
financial sanctions.
French circles described the policy
of France in the present emergency
as based upon a desire to limit as
much as possible the scope of any
measures of restraint which might
be justified against Italy.
Plan Commercial Boycott.
1t was stated that the project, as
elaborated, partakes particularly Of
the nature of commercial boycott
under which the nations would pledge
themselves to neither sell nor buy
anything from Italy.
Those close to the negotiations
cautioned that the suggested protec-
tive boycott should not be considered
tantamount to an economic blockade
since, it was explained, the word
BLOCKADE" Immediately suggests the
use of warships to enforce it. The
British delegation authorized the fol-
lowing statement:
The British and French govern
ments have had from time to time
conversations concerning what action
might be pursued in the event of GER
tain things happening. But the Brit
ish government has made no definite
proposals"
Cost Of Loyalty to League.
The Irish spokesman, President
Eamon De Valera, said the cost Of
loyalty to the League principles was:
ITO be thrown into a position of
enmity with those with whom we
wish to be on terms of friendship, to
have to oppose those whom we admire
and would welcome an occasion to
serve; what more heart-rending alter
native can there be to the abandon
ment of duty and the betrayal of our
deepest convictions and word SOL
EMMY given?"
"The final test OF the League and
: all that it stands for has come. Our
conduct in this crisis will determine
whether the League of Nations is wor-
thy to survive or whether it is better
to let it lapse, disappear, and be for
gotten"
Pact Fullfillment Backed.
Panama's spokesman, Calico Soils,
former minister of the interior, de-
clared his country's vote will always
be for the strengthening of the spirit
of the League and for an increasingly
effective fulfllment of the provisions
Of the pact and for the service of the
cause of peace, without the mainte-
nance of which the League has no
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