Evening star., 1936-06-29

arms embargo.
BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, June 29.-Emperor Halle
Selassie's spokesmen announced today
the conquered Negus would personally
address the League of Nations Assem-
bly, in an eleventh-hour appeal for
Justice"
The Assembly will meet at pm. Q1
m. Eastern standard time) tomorrow
in Geneva's municipal auditorium.
Selassie, now known by his Italian
conquerors as "Signor Tafari," worked
on the text Of his appeal in the seclu-
sion of his hotel suite today. 1t will
be delivered in French.
The Argentine delegation, which
took the initiative in calling tomor-
rows Assembly session to deal with the
sanctions question, intended to visit
him late today.
Recognition Question Arises.
Speedy funeral services, with min
imum of oratory, were planned for the
anti-Italian sanctions. But the ques-
ton which agitated statesmen was
whether the Assembly would indorse
the doctrine of non-recognition Of
territory acquired by force.
Such action, which would at least
imply disapproval of Italy's annexation
of Ethiopia, was believed to have been
the subject of conversations today be-
tween the Argentinian Manuel E. NAL
bran, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos Of
France and Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden of Great Britain.
Earlier, British and French diplo-
mats, leading the death to sanctions"
campaign, conferred on the general
situation and reached conclusions de-
scribed as extremely satisfactory"
Proposals to debate the Locarno
question, thrust into the tangled Eu-
ropean problem when goose se-stepping
German troops marched into the
Rhineland last March, were definitely
shelved for the present.
Hitler Reply Awaited.
Although the Nazi denunciation Of
the mutual security pact was listed
on the Leagues agenda, diplomats
agreed debate was impossible until
Chancellor Hitler Of Germany replies
to the British QUESTIONABLE asking
details of his suggestions for a new
peace framework.
Premier Leon Blum Of France, ac-
companied by Delbos, entered the
League arena for the first time since
the Peoples Front government came
into office at Paris.
Blum and Delbos discussed the gen.
eral situation over the dinner table
last night with Eden and fingered in
debate until nearly midnight. League
circles looked for close cooperation
between representatives of the two
nations when the Assembly convenes
tomorrow.
That body-offcially convoked to
decide its opinion on the Italo-Ethi-
opian War-already possessed another
task handed to it by the League Coun-
Gil, the problem of initiating possible
revision of the covenant.
One conclusion appeared certain:
Cancellation of the economic and
financial penalties voted eight months
ago against Italy for aggression in
Ethiopia.
"Save the League" Guiding Theme.
Another conclusion gained new ad-
herents: Refusal to recognize Italian
annexation of Emperor Halle Selassie's
kingdom.
Delegates heard the slogan "Save
the League" as the guiding theme for
the assembly's deliberations.
An official memorandum arrived
from Rome, declared to describe the
present situation in Ethiopia "for the
guidance of the League Assembly"
(Fascist officials and newspapers
predicted q general attitude against
sanctions, listing more than a dozen
nations against the penalties and only
one-the Union Of South Africa-in
favor of continuing the punitive"
measures.
Gin addition to various Latin-Ameri-
can countries, the nations termed in
favor of suspension of sanctions were:
Great Britain, France, Switzerland,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Rumania,
Greece, Turkey, Spain, Russia, Norway,
Sweden. Austria and Hungary