Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
British Reject
Counter Plan
of Rome.
LEAGUE HEADS
SEE DEADLOCK
Committee of Five
Will Report to
Council.
BY the Associated Press.

GENEVA, september 23.-RumorS
swept through the League of Ma
lions Hobbies today that the Italian
delegation, angered by the Italo-
Ethiopian Committees attitude, might
leave Geneva.
These reports were heard after the
British delegation took the position
that Italys counter proposals to a
League plan for settlement of the
Italo-E Ethiopian dispute were unac-
ceptable.
The League plan was accepted by
Ethiopia.
League officials said the danger of
hopeless deadlock was developing.
Held Definite Rejection.
The officials said they based their
view on the fact that the Committee
of Five which prepared the compro-
mise plan had decided that an Italian
made by the Italians constituted a
definite rejection of the plan.
The plan was prepared by a COM
rnittee composed of delegates from
Spain, Great Britain, France, Poland
and Turkey. The chairman of the
committee. Salvador de Madariaga of
Spain, received the oral statements
from Baron Pompeo Aloisi, chief Ital-
ian delegate. last night.
1t was stated unofficially that the
italian delegation refrained from ac-
cepting some of the most essential
points of the League plan. Baron
Aloisi enumerated to De Madariaga
points which we're not acceptable to
Italy, but, apparently. without specify
ing just what Italy asked as mini
mum.
Committee to Report Directly.
For that reason the Committee of
Five decided that Aloisi's observations
would make Cancellation extremely
difficult, if not impossible. The COM
mittee decided to report direct to Vie
League Council on the whole situa-
ton.
Included in the italian counter
proposal, it was reported unoffcially,
was a demand for a belt of territory
passing west of Adds Ababa n
Ethiopia, connecting the colonies Of
Somaliland and Eritrea. 1t was also
said there was a demand for the
total disarmament of Ethiopia and
the placing of Ethiopia's armed forces
under Italian command.
Meanwhile, however, De Madariaga
will endeavor to determine from Aloisi
whether the Italians observations rep
resented the considered official opinion
of the Italian government.
French More Determined.
It was indicated in official French
circles that, as result of these latest
developments, France was determined
more than ever to act within the
spirit and the letter of the League
Covenant.
With the delegates generally pessi-
miStic and anticipating the collapse
of Cancellation efforts, League officials
were asking whether the conflict now
would be definitely considered under
Article XIV of the Covenant.
(Article Is provides tina. if there
should arise between members of the
League dispute likely to lead to war
the members agree that they will sub
nit the matter to the Council, which
shall endeavor to effect a settlement
of the dispute)
before the Council would consider the
question of sanctions against the ag
gressor it would ask the advice of the
League Assembly.
Committee to Report.
If the Cancellation efforts collapse
the Committee of Five will bring in,
as an official communique, a report
on the entire situation, probably with
recommendations for the settlement of
the dispute.
These recommendations may or
may not follow closely on the present
League suggestions that the dispute
be ended upon an international guar
antee of protection for the frontiers
between Ethiopia and the Italian colo
MES in East Africa.
League officials said that after their
meeting all members of the Committee
Of Five seemed determined to push for
a quick solution of the crisis and to
be DESTROYS that the Council as a
whole consider the new situation Gre
ateG by Italy's attitude.
Premier Laval of France, who ex-
erted every effort to induce Premier
Mussolini to adopt an attitude of
compromise, emerged from todays
meeting of the Committee of Five
looking completely downcast and
troubled.
Informal Discussions Continue.
Ethiopia's answer of acceptance of
the Leagues plan was accompanied,
It was said by officials, by observations
but with no reservations.
Informal discussions among the
delegates persisted in the early hours
of today, the British representatives
meeting near midnight.
prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
summoned members of his cabinet to
private conversations in London as
prelude to tcmorrow's full-dress meet
ing to discuss Mussolini'S mo" to the
League committees peace proposals.
Premier Laval fastened back from
Paris for the meeting with his British,
Spanish, Polish and Turkish colleagues
on the Big Five committee.
The latest word from the British
spokesman was that his delegation had
not vet had any official information
on new developments warranting OPP
timism that war might be ayerted in