LEAGUE PROCEDURE ST MOMENTOUS MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 205, 30 August 1935, Page 7

LEAGUE PROCEDURE ST MOMENTOUS MEETING.

POWERS CONSULTING. Franco-British Peace Plan To be Resubmitted. '<•" i ITALO-ABY SSINIA PROBLEM. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, August 29. Mr. Anthony Eden will leave for the Geneva meeting on Monday, thus allowing time for private discussions with other delegations to the League Council meeting before the session opens 011 Wednesday. The procedure to be followed at Geneva is meanwhile receiving careful study, and satisfaction is expressed in the formal assurance contained in the communique issued yesterday at the close of the meeting of the Italian Cabinet at Bolzano, that at the Council meeting the Italian Government will present a declaration defining its position regarding the Abyssinian problem, and a memorandum dealing with the history of the relations between Italy and Abyssinia. The fullest and closest consideration of these documents is assured. The suggestions made by the British and French Governments at the Paris conversations, in an effort to effect a settlement of the dispute, which were rejected by Italy, also will be before the Council. These suggestions, which were based on accepted principles for the maintenance of the independence and integrity of Abyssinia and of the open door, offered wide opportunities for economic development by Italy and for Italian association in the work of colonisation in Africa. Both in Paris and London the opinion is strongly held that these proposals deserved more serious consideration than they have received from the Italians, and that the members of the League Council will regard them as offering an opportunity for meeting the legitimate Italian aspirations in Abyssinia. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, who rejoined Mrs. Baldwin at Aix-les-Bains to complete his holiday after the special Cabinet meeting last Thursday, expects to leave there on Wednesday and reach London to-day week. The period of the Prime Minister's stay abroad has been indeterminate and the decision to curtail it, which was only communicated to his colleagues in London this afternoon, was no doubt prompted by a wish to be in closer touch with public business during the next few weeks. When the League Council meets it is expected that early in the proceedings a report will be made on the three-Power conference in Paris. Mr. Eden, who on August 3. undertook to inform the Council at its next meeting of the result of the Paris talks, is understood to have been considering the terms of this report before settling its final form, for which he will certainly wish to consult with M. Laval, with whom he has been closely associated in all the peace attempts of the last few months. POPE'S SPEECH. Complaint of Faulty Reporting In Italian Press. ONLY FOUR EXTRACTS GIVEN. (Received 2.30 p.m.) VATICAN CITY, August 29. The "Observatore Romano" complains that the Pope's speech against war was reported in the Italian Press in four brief extracts, which did not give the full meaning and omitted passages in which lie condemned the right of selfdefence if carried to excess. STRIKE AGAINST WAR. QUEENSLAND UNION'S THREAT. BRISBANE, August 29. The Queensland Trades and Labour Council, which represents 10,000 unionists, has pledged itself to organise a general strike in the event of the Federal Government involving Australia in an overseas war.