Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-11
STATES
OBLIGATIONS
MUST BE MET.
Foreign Secretary Calls On Coli
Iective Resistance To Unpro-
voked Attacks
ETHIOPIA ASKS SURVEY
Urges League To Send Com
mission Into Country To IN
vestigate Conditions
BY WALLACE CARROLL
nited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
GENEVA, Sept. 11.-Great Bri-
tain took a forceful stand in the
Italian Ethiopian crisis today, de-
manding in the League of Nations
assembly that members fulfill OBJ
legations to resist, as a unit, unpro-
voked aggression.
Confident of his country's might.
and the support of the British pub
lie, Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign Sec.
retary, opened debate on the cri--
sis with complete inastention to
Benito Mussolini's threats.
He repeated Britains recognition
OF 1taly's need for expansion and
raw materials, but he would not ad-
NIT that these could not be obtain
ed peaceably.
Britain stands for steady collect
i've resistance to all acts. of unpro-
voked aggression" he said.
This was the keynote of the
speech and was interpreted as a
direct warning to Italy that it must
back up its threats if it meant them.
He limited to France also that If it
wanted Britains close friendship, it
must join it against war.
He appealed directly to Italy not
to resign from the league.
For the first time, in public, he
appealed without mentioning names
to the United States, Germany and
Japan to cooperate with the league
in the emergency.
THE league from the outset has
lacked the membership of certain
powerful nations and since it has
lost the membership of others. This
lack of universally inevitably in
troduces an element of uncertainty
as to how far we can count on world
wide support of the work Of organ
izing and maintaining peace"
During the speech, Baron POM
peo Aloisi of Italy leaned calmly
back in his chair, occasionally dang
ling his monocle in his hand.
GENEVA, Sept. IL. U,R)-Tecla
Hawariat, Ethiopian representative,
asked the league assembly to send
a commission of inquiry into Ethio-
pia, when the assembly resumed its
session late today. He said the COM
mission should investigate the truth
of Italian charges that Ethiopia is a
barbarouS nation.
HaWariat, reopening the general
discussion, limited that the evidence
against Ethiopia in the recent Ital-
ian memorandum is largely fraud
Ulent.
+ by means of modern photo
graphs" he said, 1T is easy to forge
convincing documents designed to
show evidences of barbarism."
Hawariat therefore asked the
league to send a commission of in
guiry which would give the Ethi-
opian people their first hope of JUS
tice."
Ethiopia. he said would welcome
international aid in the development
of her natural resources, adding:
In the name of his majesty the
emperor, declare that my country
is ready to accept any reasonable
suggestion made in good faith"
Hawariat cited Ethiopia's long
Christian tradition as proof that the
people are not barbarians.
Although we are called barbar-
ians," he said, I'VE have given proof
of restraint and humility in the pre-
sent crisis. We are reproached with
slavery, but slavery is not an Ethi-
oppn invention.
He suggested that the equivalent
of slavery exists in factories in cer-
tain civilized countries and said
Ethiopia is making a conscientious
effort to suppress slavery.
Hawariat spoke calmly in excel
lent French. A battery of floodlights
and movie cameras was trained on
him.