LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
NOT MOMENT FOR ABrANDON- ‘ MENT. 'I-lAILE SELAS-SIE’S VIEWPOINT. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 11. The Emperor Haile Selassie attended his first public luncheon in England, when he was the guest of the League of Nations Union. Professor Gilbert Murray gave the toast of the Emperor’s health, and Haile Selassie, in his reply, said that there was current an unfortunate tendency to consider the ‘League in its present form incapable of continued existence or further action in the present war. He added that the Abyssinians in Nallo Chercher and other occupied provinces Were rising against- the op.pressors, while the western third of Ethiopia was still under the government of its lawful authorities. This was not the moment for abandonment . of confidence in the League.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 205, 12 June 1936, Page 5
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