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

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SETTLING DISPUTE. Italy Warns Other Nations to Keep Out of Quarrel. THREAT TO THE LEAGUE. (United P.A.-Electrlc Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, August 29. The "Daily Telegraph" Bolzano correspondent states that Signor Mussolini, in a 45 minutes' speech to the Cabinet, declared that the Abyssinian dispute could only be settled by a victory for Italian arms. His object would be two-fold, namely, to wipe out the Adowa defeat and to place himself in a position to dictate peace terms to the Emperor. If the League of Nations voted sanctions, even moral ones, or censured Italy, slic„would leave Geneva. The punitive expedition against Abyssinia could be localised unless the League started action which would end in war and possibly in the loss of millions of lives. Italy needed 50 years of quiet work to colonise and civilise Abyssinia, in which work she hoped to have the association, not the antagonism, of the British Empire. For 13 years Italy had been trying to develop friendly co-operation with Abyssinia, but every time treaties had been signed they had been violated. The Emperor came to Home in 1928 and signed .a treaty of friendship which had also been broken. Moreover, Abyssinia had been arming for many years. Dispatches from Bolzano give the text of the communique issued after the meeting of the Italian Cabinet. This refers to sanctions the League of Nati.ons might take, saying:— "The Cabinet proclaims to the Italian nation and to other nations that there may be certain sanctions which might lead to the gravest complications. The Cabinet declares itself convinced that at the meeting of the League Council there will be found a group of responsible men who will reject any odious and dangerous proposal of sanctions.", Britain Has Nothing to Fear. The communique, which is more than 1000 words long, also recalls the fact that in much more serious cases the League has neither voted nor been in a position to apply sanctions of any kind. Nevertheless, the problem of sanctions has been examined by the highest Italian military authorities in all its aspects, especially as to the possibility of special sanctions of a military character, and decisions on the measures necessary to confront them have been already made. Continuing, the communique says that Signor Mussolini declared Britain had nothing to fear from the Italian policy in Abyssinia. "Italy does not wish to have differences with Britain, with whom in the Great War, then at Locarno and Stresa, our collaboration was of undoubted importance for the European stability achieved," said II Duce. "Italy's dispute is with Abyssinia. She has not, and does not want, a dispute with Britain. Italy does not threaten directly or indirectly British Imperial interests." The communique emphasises that the memorandum which Italy is submitting to the League Council will make it clear that ever since the treaty of Uccialli Italy's colonial priority in Abyssinia has always been recognised.