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Winston Churchill Proposes
Armed Peace Plan Based
on League Aims.
Nv the Associated Press.

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LONDON. May 1o-Britain's re-
bellious Tory. Winston Churchill
stepped forward today as the
nations new champion of interna-
tional idealism and offered a plan
for armed peace based upon League
Of Nations principles
The fighting wartime chief of British
sea forces, in q beech at Manchester
last night, touched of a countrywide
campaign to whip together a nom
party movement dedicated to forma-
ton Of l0-power entente with the
League covenant as its guiding star.
The Manchester gathering was the
first Of series under the guidance of
the powerful League of Nations
union calling on the world-in Mr..
Churchill's words-to arm and stand
by the covenant"
Mr. Churchill said he would like to
see France and Britain go to all the
smaller states that are menaced, that
are going to be devoured one by one
BY Nazi tyranny, and say to them.
We aren't going to help you if you
aren't going to help yourselves. Are
you prepared to take special service In
defense OF the Covenant"
Lists Possible Members.
The states he listed as possible men,
bers of the entente were Yugoslavia
Rumania. Hungary. Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey-with
the way left open for aid from Soviet
Russia in the event of war
He expressed the belief that Italy
also might cooperate eventually in
such an alliance, adding If we could
get as far as that, the war danger
would be removed perhaps for our
lifetime and the United States would
signal her encouragement and SYM
pathy"
Formation of a combination OF
nations for mutual defense against
a probable aggressor," Mr.. Churchill
said. was highest moral duty and
virtue"
I'VE must gather together around
the joint strengths of Britain and
France and under authority of league
of countries prepared to resist and. If
possible, prevent acts of violent ag-
gression," he declared.
There is the path to safety and
there is the only guarantee Of free
dom"
Press Cool to Speech.
He scathingly condemned any peace
pact with Germany which might re-
turn her war lost colonies or result IN
muzzling the British press.
THAT policy" he asserted, lis one
which in my view would be disgrace
full and disastrous. In the first place,
1t would lead us straight to war. We
should be helplessly gagged, ap-
parently conserving spectators to the
horrors which would spread through
Central Europe"
The press gave the elder statesman's
speech cool reception, some report
ing it CURLY and others lengthily, but
buried among obituaries. Only the lib
eral News-Chronicle recognized his
plea with editorial comment.
Churchill has given a magnificent
answer to the defeatism which has sur
rounded the country's leaders like a
foul miasma." the News-Chronicle
said. THE clarion call which he has
sounded will find an echo in millions
Of British homes now dismayed by
government feebleness.''
Ultimate success of Mr.. Churchills
plan could mean defeat of the Con-
servative government, overthrow of
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
or an upheaval in government policy.
Selassie in London.
LONDON, May 10 (P).-Haile Sc
Assie, exiled Emperor of Ethiopia,
came to London today from his sea-
side retreat at Bath, but it was indi-
Gated he would not proceed to Geneva
for the League Of Nations Council de-
bate concerning his countrys fate.
His wife, the Empress Menen, and
son. Prince Selasie, have arrived in
France. AS they entrained for Paris
the Empress said she did not know
whether they would go to Geneva.