The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1935.
For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, Fur the future in the distance, . And the good that tee can do.
MUSSOLINI V. TIME. The decisive support accorded M. Laval in the French Senate elections is likely to have important influence at Geneva. It removes the doubt concerning the stability of the French Cabinet, and it affords evidence that M. Laval's policy at Geneva is approved in his own country. So far that policy has amounted to little more than agreement in principle with the League's decisions to proclaim Italy an aggressor nation and to bring- pressure to bear upon her by means of economic sanctions. In the vital task of devising means to make sanctions effectual the League has had little more than nominal support from France, and her hesitation is reflected in the equivocal attitude of some of tha smaller nations. M. Laval will now be expected to show unmistakably whether his support of the League is to be positive or negative.
There are indications that even a united League will encounter great difficulty in applying economic sanctions. The "reconstruction" of the Austrian Government, plainly influenced by Italia'n pressure, is just as plainty in Italy's favour, and it is likely to make a gap in any blockade which the League may impose with the object of stopping the inward Aoav of essential materials. But the effect of the embargo upon exports from Italy now proposed may in the long run bo more decisive than a restriction of imports. Time is on the League's side.
In Abyssinia, too, time is against Italy. The early victory at Adowa, important for "home consumption," has not been followed by the quick and unmistakable gains Avliich, considering the situation confronting him in Europe, Mussolini obviously must desire. Even without the hostility of the League Powers Italy could not contemplate with equanimity the prospect of a military campaign extending into years. There appears some ground for hoping that before the rainy season halts the campaign in April or May Italy may be induced to listen to terms of settlement.
The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1935.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 250, 22 October 1935, Page 6
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