Evening star., 1935-08-26
ANGEL SAYSU.S S,
TO FEEL CONQUEST
Peace Prize Winner Holds
Strong British Stand
Would Nip War.
BY SIR NORMAN ANGEL,
Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1888.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1888.
(copyrieht. 1895. by the Associated Press)
NORTHEY ISLAND. Maldon, Essex.
England, August 26.-The results OF
war between Italy and Ethiopia, IN so
far as they affect Great Britain and
America, can hardly be in doubt.
Italy would, of course, conquer Eth
sopia, but not easily, and its subse-
uuent occupation of the country will
be extremely exhausting. Germany
will in consequence have a free hand
IN Austria. Weakening Italy will be
one step toward the re-establishment
of the military hegemony of Europe
through Germany which both Britain
and America fought the great war
to Illustrate.
The menace to democracy will be
Infinitely greater than would have
been involved in victory for pre-
war Germany. Another unchecked
successful assertion of Fascist military
power. coming after those made first
by Japan and Germany-the latter
having been able to defy the victors
with complete impunity within few
years of their victory-will, in fact,
reduce the remaining great demo-
cratic states of Europe. France and
Great Britain, to something like i'm
potence.
WeakenS Empire Position.
The position of the British empire
Will be weakened in any case by the
planting of an "expansionist" and an
intensely militarist state, possessed of
a particular political morality which
inspires an italian policy, along line
vital to imperial communication COM
manding the headwaters of the blue
Nile and establishing a new frontier
marching 100 miles with the frontiers
OF British colonies.
A still more important conside-a-
ton is that Italian aggression upon
the only remaining independent
African state will add the most in
dammable fuel to the flames of
Asiatic and African nationalism which
must sooner or later place the whole
imperial structure in danger. The
tntensif1cation of race feeling will cer-
tainly have American Tepercussion.
Sooner or later Britain will be
compelled to intervene AS guardian
and chief shareholder of the Suez
Canal, the position of facilitating and
making profit out of an act of aggres-
sion which defies all international
rights and which also undermines
Britain's own security, will become
too absurd for indeflnits acceptance
by the British people
Intervention" mustn't be read as
naval or military operations. 1t may
consist of closing the canal, leaving
the next step to Italy. America won't
be dragged in in the sense that she
was dragged in in 1917. But sooner
or later she will be compelled to CO.
operate with other states in with
holding from Italy not merely NUM-
tions in the last stage of manufacture,
but those things indispensable to war.
Sees Ultimate Cooperation.
The United States not only is
signatory but the actual initiator of
the treaty declaring non-defenSive
war a crime against mankind. To
supply a criminal with means for his
crime or to refuse to cooperate in
checking or making difficult what
America herself declared to be a
crime will, as the situation is clari-
fled, come as a shock to the Amer
ican conscience. There will ulti-
mately be cooperation between Great
Britain and America to stop the sup
ply of means for carrying on oper-
aticns which before long may well be-
come little more than senseless
murder.
Britain could have stopped the
whole drift toward war if she had
been given a lead modelled on the
action of American statesmen some
thing over a century ago; if, in other
words, she had declared a principle
of the covenant to be her Monroe
Doctrine The covenant declares
state in the circumstances of the
1talo- Ethiopian dispute which goes to
war with one member of the League
goes to war with all.
Italy knows unhappily we are in
two minds in defense of the covenant.
Upon that uncertainty and that divi-
sion of will, the military dictator is
ready to gamble.