Evening star., 1936-07-01
EDEN URGES NON-RECOGNITIO,
Admits, However, Sanctions Have Not
Been Successful.

Been Successful.
GENEVA, July l Py.-Anthony
Eden of Great Britain told the League
Of Nations Assembly today it should
not, in any way, recognize Italy's con-
quest of Ethiopia.
He declared. however. that sanctions
had failed and that only military ac-
ton could succeed" in changing the
present situation.
I'm present world conditions this
could not be considered as a posi-
bility," the British foreign secretary
added.
He recommended the continuance,
after the Assembly has taken action
to suppress sanctions of mutual assist
ance pacts in the Mediterranean Sea.
Eden spoke while Geneva heard
warnings Of wholesale designations of
smaller powers from the League and
after the Assembly had listened to
biting criticism of great powers from
the South African delegate because of
their recession from sanctions.
Eden pledged to Premier Leon Blum
OF France the full cooperation of
Great Britain Gin rebuilding an au-
thoritary League"
The League, he said, should not be
abandoned because it had failed once.
Methods by which international law
Is to be enforced should be amended,
he declared, so they will correspond
to the action which nations are willing
to take
The time to tackle the question of
League reform, Eden asserted, is at
the September session of the Assembly.
The delegate of Panama told the
Assembly there was "a strong current
of opinion favoring the withdraw of
all Latin American states"
The foreign ministers of Denmark,
Finland, Norway, Sweden, The Meth
erlandS, Spain and Switzerland an
nounced there were doubts in their
nations as to whether the conditions
in which they assumed Geague) obli-
cations" still maintained.
Non-RecognitiOn Indicated.
Blue indicated to the Assembly that
France will not cognize Italy's annex
alton Of Ethiopia.
The Socialist government head de-
clared France would not give absolu-
ton constituting encouragement of
actions contrary to the right.
He warned that only through gen.
eral disarmament could the specter of
war be dissipated.
The Assembly met in a tense atmos-
phere engendered by the events of yes
terday when Halle SelaSsie was de-
layed in beginning speech by dem
onstration of hostile spectators.
The demonstration broke out sud-
denly in the galleries when the de-
feated Emperor of Ethiopia arose to
upbraid the League for its failure to
prevent Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.
italian sympathizers whistled, booed
and shouted insults at the Negus.
Other spectators in the gallery struck
at the demonstrators and soon a num-
Der of fist fights were in progress.
Assembly Becomes Bedlam.
The erstwhile dignified Assembly
became bowling bedlam while Halle
SelaSSie waited patiently on the roS-
trum for five minutes until police came
to the aid of League ushers to restore
order.
The police arrested eight italian
newspaper men for creating a scam
dal" and spectators were cautioned to-
day that any one disturbing the peace
of the meeting would be dealt with
sternly.
A vigorous denunciation of the great
powers for the collapse of sanctions.
by Charles TIE Water of the Union of
South Africa, stirred the assembly.
TIE Water recalled "the noble pro-
testations of Britain's foreign secretary
(then Sir Samuel Hoare), which
seemed to the world the essence and
spirit of the new age, because he called
(See GENEVA, Pare 81