The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-07
INTERNATIONAL

JAN 1-Emperor of Ethiopia protested
to League of Nations against use of poi.
son gas by Italians and bombing OF
Swedish ambulance.
Jan. 15-Japan withdrew from naval
conference in London:
Jan. % - Seven European powers
pledged cooperation of war forces
against Italy, if Britain was attacked.
Jan. 29-Manchukuo opened military
operations against Outer Mongolia.
Feb 15-Italians defeated Ethiopians
after six days battling on northern
front.
March 1-Ethiopians defeated by Ital.
ians in another great battle, in Templen
area.
March 3-League of Nations commit
tee asked Italy and Ethiopia to consider
an armiStice.
March ethiopia accepted proposal
for peace parley.
March Hitler denounced the Lo-
carno treaty and remilitarized the Rhine
land; France moved troops to border
and invoked covenant of league against
March l2-Great Britain. France. Bel
gium and Italy indicted Germany for
further action to League of Nations
council.
French senate ratified mutual assist
ance treaty with Russia.
March 19-League council condemned
Germany for violating treaties.
March 21-United States. Britain and
France agreed on treaty limiting size of
battleshipS.
March 22-Italy, Austria and Hungary
strengthened their alliance.
March 29-Italian bombers destroyed
Harrar. second city of Ethiopia.
March 30-Iran withdrew its diplo-
matte representatives from Washington.
April IA Italian forces occupied
Dessye. Ethiopia.
April 17-Turkey remilitarized the Dar-
danelIes in violation of Lausanne treaty.
League of Nations abandoned effort to
end Italo- Ethiopian war.
abandoned Adds Ababa as Italians drew
near; city burned and looted by natives.
May 5-Italians occupied Adds Ababa
and declared the war ended.
May 9-Italy formally annexed ETH:
opia and announced restoration of
May u r Mussolini recalled Italian
delegates from Geneva; league council
adjourned to June IS:
May 15-Guatemala withdrew from
League of Nations.
May 18-United States senate ratified
new London naval treaty.
June l7-British cabinet voted for end
of sanctions against Italy.
July 12-Germany and Austria revived
pact of friendship.
July 15-Sanctions against Italy ended.
July l8-Turkey given right TO mill
tariZe the Dardanelles.
reached a naval accord. with no limit en-
Soviet tonnage.
July 3l-Great Britain, France, Bel
GUM, Italy and Germany agreed TO
work out a new Locarno pact.
Aug. 6-Germany strongly protested TO
Spain against killing of four NaZls ana
shelling of German steamship.
Aug. 21-Hitler demanded Russia and
Spain stop radio Islander" campaign
against Germany.
Aug. 23-Bolivia and Paraguay re-
newed diplomatic relations.
Germany barred shipments OF war
munitions to Spain.
Aug. 26-Great Britain and Egypt
signed treaty of alliance.
Aug. 27-Great Britain and France
asked II nations to join in arms en-
barge against Spain.
Aug 29-Russia demanded expulsion
Sept. 6-France and Poland signed
military treaty.
Sept. World Power congress opened
in Washington.
Sept 14-Pope Plus called on the world
to crush communism.
Sept. 21-Eighteenth League OF Natlons
assembly opened in Geneva.
Sept 23-League of Nations assembly
seated Ethiopian delegation.
Japanese marines occupied part of
Shanghai after one bluejacket was killed
by Chinese.
Oct. 2-Spanish government and insur-
gents both laid complaints before League
of Nations.
Oct. 5-League of Nations gave Poland
mandate to solve troubles of free city OF
DanZig.
Oct 23-Portugal severed diplomatic
relations with Spain; Russia denounced
the neutrality pact relating to Spain.
Oct. 25-Germany and Italy reached
agreement for unified political action.
Nov. 6-Naval powers, excepting Ger
many and Russia, signed agreement to
"humanize" submarine warfare.
Nov. IL - Nobel prize in literature
awarded to Eugene O'Neill, American
Gramatist; in physics to Prof Carl D.
Anderson of California and Prof. V. G.
Hess of Austria; in chemistry to Prof.
Peter Rebye of Berlin.
Nov. 14-Germany denounced naviga.
tion clauses of Versailles treaty, resum-
ing sovereignty over her internal water
ways.
Nov. 18-Germany and Italy recog-
nized Francois Fascist government of
Spain.
Nov. 24-Nobel peace prize for 1895
awarded to Carl Won Ossietsky, German