Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1935, Page 6

WAR IN ETHIOPIA HELD INEVITABLE Geneva Observers, How- ever, Believe League Will Finally Triumph. The League of Nations’ appar- ently fruitless eflorts to prevent @ war between Italy and Ethiopia are discussed here by Senator Pope, member of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee, who is in Geneva on his round of visits to European capitals for a series of unofiicial conversations with states= men there. BY JAMES P. POPE, United States Senator From Idaho. By Radio to The Star. GENEVA, September 10 (N.A. N.A.).—As the Council of the League of Naticas gathers around its semi- - circular green table and its component leaders among the nations turn formal attention to Ethiopia, there is a grow- Ethioplan deputies at & meeting of Parliament recently, when the principal topic was preparedness for the “possible” invasion by the Italian forces. —Wide World Photos. Mussolini’s dictatorship. A new gov- ernment in Italy would have all the problems it could handle without waging & war in Africa and it would permit the League to draft & peace treaty. Thereby the League, by & long process, would have won the battle. This is the thought and plan ad- vanced by the permanent staff of em- ployes of the League. It seems far- fetched and the cart seems to be pull- ing the horse. Nevertheless it is worth consideration and would undoubiedly be an advance over the peace efforts of previous centuries. Such are the possibilities advanced in Geneva, peace center of the world. The actual negotiations are still in the stage where Italy is endeavoring to becloud and confuse the issues. The Italian government has now demanded the expulsion of an Ethiopian delegate for “impolite speech,” and thus an- other red herring is dragged along the shores of Lake Geneva. (Copyright. 1085. by the North American N r Alliance. Inc.) | Church Group in Play. A play, “Grandmother’s Dream,” will be presented tonight at 8 o'clock at the Park View LChristian Church, Park road between Georgia avenue and Warder street, by members of the junior church. Sylvilla Hinson and Kenneth Youngblood have the leading roles. NIGHT FINAL SPORTS delivery— The The last edition of The Star—the Night Final—is printed for “ie many people who desire the very latest and comglefe news of the day. The Night Final is printed at 6 p.m. and delivered to your home shortly _there- after for 55 cents - & month (or, together with The Sunday Star, 70 cents a month). afsry of the Night Final call For regular deliv- A New and ing conviction among impartial observers that the League is| powerless to pre- vent a war be- tween Italy and | the African king- | dom. Italy has in-| et dicted Ethiopia, | Scanter Pobs parndoxicnlly; enough, and the | Ttalian delegation walked out of the | meeting during the Ethiopian reply. The walers are thoroughly muddied and beneath them Italy continues her preparations for war. Many statesmen have now turned their attention to the problems which | will arise during a war, in contrast to their former attitude of endeavor- *ing to preserve peace. If Italy is successful in keeoing the | Yeague wandering aimlessly in a) < morass of argument, the conquest of Ethiopia will probably be conducted as a “revolution.” Some years ago, it is said, France desired to obtain cer- tain rights and concessions in Morocco. Being unable successfully to negotiate with the ruler, French troops subdued | . the country and replaced the govern- ment with one more friendly. There- upon France negotiated with the new government and obtained such con- | cessions and privileges as she desired. | Not War of Aggression. This, said France at the time, was not a war of aggresison but was merely & revolution in which France encour- aged and assisted the rightful aspirant | to the throne. Most other nations have at one time or another done the | same thing. | Fortunately for Italy, Ethiopia is| full of potential “Kings of Kings.” | And for the present the Italian dele- | gone by: “I did no act of aggression. | commercial interests abroad, partic- There was a revolution in Ethiopia |ularly in war zones, I sometimes and the new Emperor is favorable to | wonder just how much difference such Italy.” | a declaration would make if American Small Nations Fearful. |cmzens were killed or the property That is, of course; the ideal devel- | of Americans was damaged by some opment from the Italian \'iewpmnc.lwarrlng foreign nation, It probably will not work, nowever, for In the long run, the action of any two reasons. First, the small nations | nation is controlled by public opinion, 1n the League are worried and will do and it is to this vague, undefinable, everything they can think of to place | yet overpowering force that the states- chains of restraint on Mussolini. They | men must make appeals for peace. In are not much worried about Ethiopia | fact, it is to public opinion that the but fear they may be next in line as | League is looking for support of its food for the Italian kitty. |‘Dower and effectiveness in handling Second, in spite of their poor arma- | international controversies. ment, their lack of training and their Confident for Lesgue. destitution, the Ethiopians in their own manner of warfare are expected to delay the arrival of Mussolini in Addis Ababa at least two years.| Should this development be the decree The attitude of the League as an entity is expressed, I believe, very ac- curately by its secretariat. The mem- bers of the permanent staff expressed to me the opinion that the League | tially interested. A very serious and | | tions. Great Britain probably would | gation can ask, “why is the League concerned, since no aggression has | of fate, a comparatively long and | would emerge from the present crisis bitter war would be conducted. The | more powerful and with more respect Italians would find it necessary as a | than it now possesses. Here is the tactical matter to establish a war - zone and to blocade Ethiopia. In ac- cordance with the rules of war, Italy would have the right to search neutral | ships carrying consignments of goods | to Ethiopia and seize any contraband manner in which that conclusion is reached: Because of the technical obstacles to immediate action and because of diplomatic complications causing some nations to oppose sanctions, Italy will attack Ethiopia. eral thousand Ethiopians have been slaughtered and as soon as the press has carried stories and pictures of the horrors of war as waged by Mussolini— and it cannot be gainsaid that the press will favor Ethiopia as a sporting proposition—public opinion through- out the world will force the League to declare graduated samctions. As it was expressed to me, “even France will be forced into this alree- ment.” The so-called graduated sanc- tions are not expected to stop the war immediately. 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