The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-05
ITALY CENSURED
FOR INVASION IN
LEAGUE REPORT
Language Held Tantamount
to Verdict of Guilt
Against Rome.
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Immediately try to designate an ag-
gressor In so doing, it will con-
slider much documentary material
in addition to the report of the /
committee.
The three final paragraphs of the
committees report throw into high |
relief the contrast between the |
Italian and Ethiopian attitudes
since the clash at Ualual on Dec. 5.
which brought the quarrel between |
Mussolini and Halle Selassie into
the arena of international diplo-
macy.
They point out that Ethiopia has
accepted all proposals for a peace
full settlement, whereas Italy has
consistently refused to admit that |
the dispute could be settled in &C
cordance with the League covenant. |
Expounding the Ethiopian atti-
tude, it says that Ethiopia sought
to have the League settle the Ualual
incident, but agreed to submit the
matter to arbitration when Italy .
demanded such action under the |
1923 Italo-Ethiopian treaty.
Delegates Are Plainly Worried
Gravity of the crisis confronting |
the League showed in every face |
among the diplomats gathering
from all over the world for their
first meeting since Italian troops |
poured across the March River into |
Ethiopia.
Baron Pompeo Aloisi of Italy
avoided interviewers when he ar
rived at 7:30 a. m. from Rome and |
Premier Laval of France, detraining |
from Paris go minutes later, hur-
ried to an immediate conference
with the French league delegation.
Laval probably must commit |
France definitely within the next
few days for or against co-opera-
ton in enforcing anti-Italian sane
tons that Great Britain asked last |
week. His cabinet yesterday gave
him free hand to negotiate such
an agreement, implying only the
condition that Britain promise flu
ture similar cooperation in other
emergencies.
Armistice to Be Sought
A member of the committee of 10,
representing all members of the
council except Italy, revealed that
the League Council probably will
request commanders of the Italian
and Ethiopian armies to order an
immediate halt Of hostilities pend
mig peaceful settlement.
simultaneously the Council will
create a new subcommittee, prob
ably of five major powers, to report
on circumstances of the invasion of
Ethiopia and, undoubtedly, to desig-
nate Italy formally as an unpro-
voked aggressor
The report the committee of IS
will submit to the Council today,
covering circumstances of the Italo-
Ethiopian dispute from the time of
the famous patrol clash at Ual Ual
last year to the date CT italian in
vasion Of Ethiopia, is a stern in
dictment of the entire Italian pro-
gram.
Full Blame Put on Italy
It declares that Ethiopia has at
tempted loyalty to fill it's obliga-
lions under the covenant" while
Italy has diSregarded its promise in
the covenant and in the treaty of
1923 to settle it's differences with
Emperor Halle Selassie's country by
arbitration.
A member of the committee |
leaving the midnight conference at
which the report was completed in
a stormy atmosphere, described the
document as IAN act of accusation"
Representative of Russia, Turkey i
and Poland disapproved some as
poets of the report but were over
ruled. They may bring their OBJ
jections more forcibly to the fore in
the meetings today f the full COM
mittee and the Council.
vladimir Potemkine of Russia |
and Renal Husnu of Turkey
lodged reservations against recog-
milton in the report of the treaty
of 1906 in which France, Great |
Britain and Italy apportioned
spheres of influence" in Ethiopia !
without Ethiopias consent. Tytus
Komarnicki, Polish member, dis
puted on juridical grounds some of
the committees interpretations OF
the treaty.
Pre-Parley Talk Arranged
1t was expected that Laval,
AIoisi, Tecla Hawariat of Ethiopia,
Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinof
of Russia and Anthony Eden,
Britain'S minister to the League. |
would confer privately before the
Council meets.
The conversations may decide
whether Great Britain, already
rushing warships from all parts of
the world to the Mediterranean
Sea, the Gulf of Alden. the Red |
Sea and the East African coast, is
to challenge the determination Of |
Mussolini to obtain dominance over
the rich mines and farm lands of |
Ethiopia, and incidentally the
headwaters of the all-important |
Blue Nile.
1t was generally believed that |
Edouard Benes Of Czechoslovakia |
would, as president, convene the
League Assembly for Tuesday or
Wednesday to act on the require
ment of the covenant for penalties |
against any member nation which
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