The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-19
MussoLini Is Going
 To Reject Proposal
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would be passed. Other classes may be given a second examina- ton later.
 News Was Ominous.
 This ominous news, which puts 1t up to the League of Nations to make e better offer or face the fact of an Italian expedition into Ethiopia, came as tension sripped a reused country in preparation for a mass test" mobilization the call for which may come at any mo- ment to between 100000 and 15.000,0O0 people.
 Fascists have been warned to prepare for the call today or to- morrow. Probably 1t will come in the late. afternoon, so as not to paralyZe business, and it will keep boys and girls at designated posts until g p. m., men and women un- til midnight. Last minute orders We that every body must leave home or office instanly when the call comes by bell, siren or drum.
 Subject To Call
 Of those subject to call, mu- nitions factory workers and em- ployes in telephone, telegraphs and other essential public services alone are exempt.
 The governments significant di- version of 30,000 men-two reg ular army divisions-to Libya, bor- der.ng Egypt and the Sudan on the west was neraly completed early today when the last contingent of the Cosseria division, 10000 men, sailed in the Lombardia.
 It was said authoritatively that the new league plan, handed to Baron Pompeo Aloisi at Geneva last night, was unsatisfactory be- cause it did not give Mussolini the complete military an deconomic control of Ethiopia which he has consistently demanded. Also, 1t was said, the proposals envisaged al compromise on Italy's part where as MuEsolini has repeated that he would not compromise this prob lem-Gnd if he did 1t now, 1t would endanger his prestige seriously.
 StatemenL of Premier
 London, Sept. 19.-(UP).-| Benito Mussolini denounced as mot only unacceptable but de- risory' League of Nations offers in the Ethiopian crisis, In an inter- vie,7 with c. Ward Price published in the Daily Mail today.
 Mussolini forcefully but tenn perately in denouncing offers 50 far made to him and in insisting that Ethiopia would be better off under Italian influence.
 He sad that the final league of- fer had not reached him in official form, but that as carried by news agencies it seemed ironical.
 "The suggestion apparently Is made" he said, that Italys need for expansion in East Africa should be met by cession to her of a couple of deserts-one of salt, the other 10 stone. They are the deserts of ogden and Danakil Gin east ern Ethiopia).
 Quotes Mark Twain
 There was a man in one of Mark Twain's books who was 50 fond of echoes that he bought two moun- tains with fine echoes and built his house between them. It looks as if the league committed of five na- tions which made the offer) thinks 1 am a collector of deserts.
 II got 10000 square miles of the Sahara desert from the French a little while ago. Do you know how many inhabitants there are in that desolate area? Sixty-two!
 The Danakil country which it is proposed should be offered to Italy is the bed of dried up sea. It lies 800 feet below the present | sea level. It Is a waste of white | salt 200 miles long. It is practical ly uncrossable. There is not a blade of grass on it. Not even an Ethio- opian can find a livelihood there.
 Desert of Stone
 "The desert of Ogaden is a | desert of stone. We have irrigated | some of the Libyan desert and | made 1t habitable. But nothing | can be made of this parched | wilderness of huge rocks.
 Tt would have been far better | if the committee had addressed it. self to the central fact of the Ethiopian situation, which is that | there IS no such thing as an Ethiopian nation. What makes up the nation caled Ethiopia is q dominant race of Amharas ruling over tribes which they have con- quered and reduced to slavery, al- most exterminating them in the process.
 These depressed subject races of Ethiopia would be far better off | under Italian rule"
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