The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-23
PEACE LINKED
TO POLLING IN
GREAT BRITAIN
Actual Moves Apt to Come
After Elections in Mid
November.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Peace
in Africa IS seen here as 1rrevocably
bound up with the coming elections
IN Great Britain, the first having
to wait upon the second. The cleo
tons are expected IN mid-November.
The reasons:
Mussolini, though willing TO
talk peace, will not order his legions
home without something tangible to
show for his expenditures in men
and money, Among other things,
he must have territory.
g. 1t is equally obvious that Halle
SelaSsle Is not going TO back down,
before he has fought a single real
battle, and yield part nf MS country
to the invader. He must be much
harder pressed than he is now be-
fore he sues for peace.
3. The government at London,
having opposed Mussolini tooth and
nail at Geneva, modified its fleet
in the Mediterranean and won
plaudits for its bold stand, can not
reverse its policy now.
And Here's Why
We're II Duce tamely to surrender
at this juncture, his political life
would be forfeit, Fascism would be
doomed, and Italy might sink into
anarchy.
Were Halle SelaSSie to turn tail
before the real fighting starts, he
would lose his crown as we'll as his
country.
Were the conservative government
IN Britain to counsel the partition
of Ethiopia at this time, or abandon
the League Of Nations crusade, it
would be defeated at the polls next
month.
Already the opposition laborites
have sounded a significant warning.
There must be no carving up of
Ethiopia in order to settle the dis
pute!' exclaimed Maj. Clement r.
Attlee, new Laborite leader in Com
mons. I'VE have the greatest dis
trust of the (Tory movement in
this matter"
Rearmament Big Plank
The Tory platform will largely be
based on rearmament and world
peace through cooperation with the
League. Any show of the white
leather would spell political catas-
trophe. AS things stand, they have
stolen much of labors thunder on
the hustings.
Not that labor demands rearma-
ment. 1t doesn't. But it does de-
mand that Britain support the
League-even military sanctions.
And military sanctions are impos-
sible without armies and navies.
Observers here believe peace may
come pretty much as follows:
l. The League will leisurely pro-
coed with economic sanctions. italy
and England having agreed that war
between them is out of the question
until further notice.
?. MusSOlini's legions will press
their invasion of Ethiopia, occupying
HliNt NttI ~ MY I6M DO
SitionS
3. At the same time Britain's DO
lltical campaign will go forward to
a Tory victory at the polls.
Halle May Abdicate
4, With France as intermediary
the peace drive will be intensified,
Mussolini eventually accepting Tigre
province in the north, Ogaden and
perhaps other areas in the south,
railway and other concessions else
where in Ethiopia.
Pressure on Halle Selassie, from
inside and out, may cause him to
give in, or abdicate And if Britain,
Ethiopia, Italy and France are sat
isf1ed, Geneva will be-
1t is not exactly what we had
hoped the new British government
can reply "a critics at homeland
there would be many critics accord
ing to Maj. Attlee-"but would you
rather we turned this into another
World WARP"