Evening star., 1936-04-06
FRENCH ADVOCATE
RMYF0R LEAGUE
FIandin Submits Plan for
Peace, involving Mu-
tuaI PaCtS.
BACKGROUND

Africa. France, eager to protect
self from menace" OF HitIer's re-
authorization of former "neutrd"
territory along Rhine border. has
appealed to Locarno SigndtorieS and
also to League for aid.
Ethiopia, inuGded by italy last
year, also has appealed many times
for League aid in repeIltng foe.
InUGSion Jagged for time, but fdred
aneD last Ueek 1Cith fresh gains
By FdSciStS. Like1UtSe fdred dnet1
Emperor Halle Selasste's pleas for
help.
BY the Associated Press.
Pierre -Etienne Flandin, French
foreign minister. advanced a proposal
for peace by force" through a Euro
pean army under the League of Ma
tions at long cabinet session today.
Reliable sources reported the French
plan to unite Europes forces against
war contained three suggestions:
l. A detailed denial of Germanys
contention that Frances encircleme: t
policy, including the Franco-Sov. t
mutual assistance pact, justifles Ado
Hitlers denunciation of the Locar,
treaty
2. A refusal to let Germany FORTH,
the Rhineland
3. A proposal to organize on peac.
on an equality for all" basis by mea
of regional mutual assistance paC
and the creation of a sort of inte- .
national army to enforce League de
ciSionS.
Plan Advanced Before.
"a similar proposal for an inter
national force to support League com
mitments was previously advanced
several years ago before the League
Assembly by Andre Tardieu, then
French premier)
The government is expected to ask
the League to name European COM
mission to study the French counter
proposals to Hitlers peace suggestions.
Some quarters suggested that the
League powers maintain motorized
professional troops designated to
answer calls from the League Russia
mutual assistance lineup, but Asia
and Africa would be disregarded. thus
avoiding the obligation to send troops
outside of Europe.
Frances proposal for a new security
system constructed on the framework
OF the League is in conflict with the
German idea that such a method is
too unwieldy to insure peace.
In consequence. the world Is likely
to see the diplomats Of Germany and
France conducting international cam
paignS in favor of their own particular
plans for peace.
Farley in Geneva.
The first demonstrations Of this con-
f1ict are likely to take place this week
in Geneva. London and Brussels, with
sessions of the League of Nations
Committee Of 49," the general stats
Of France. Belgium and Great Britain
and the Locarno treaty signatories,
respectively.
British sympathies for Ethiopia ap-
peared to be mounting as Italian
armies consolidated territory won by
military victories in Northern Ethi-
opia-securing the Italian position or
the northern end of Lake Tana, the
source of supply for the Nile and the
irrigation systems Of the Anglo-Egyp-
tian Sudan and Egypt.
At the same time, Italian columns in
Northwestern Ethiopia carried on
southwark from Quoram, advancing
IS kilometers closer to Dessye, the
next objective for the Fascists and
long the general headquarters for tho
Ethiopian Emperor.
Ethiopians Retreat.
Reports from Italian military head.
quarters said the Fascist forces weIi
uniformly victorious along the north.
ern front. with Emperor Halle Selas'
sizes soldiers retreating in disorganizeI
groups toward Adds Ababa.
The Ethiopian capital was likened il
appearance to a dead city, with onl'
about 10 per cent of its citizens re.
naming within the city limits. Sat-
urday's raid by five Italian airplanes,
which machine-gunned the local air
drome, was responsible. They feared
a bigger squadron with bombs might
be the next to appear over the noun
tain horizon.