PEACE MOVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 57, 7 March 1936, Page 15

PEACE MOVES.

BELGIAN KING AS MEDIATOR? LEAGUE MANDATE PROPOSAL. PARIS, January 11. The problem of how to save Italy from the consequences of its Ethiopian adventure is getting down to cases, according to information from various well informed sources to-night. The question is what sort of plan can be evolved and held in reserve pending a o-reat Italian offensive, which apparently is due to start in February, and for which Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italian commander in.. chief in -Africa, has asked and received 80,000 fresh troops. Since the failure of the Hore-Laval noa.cc plan France has been unable and umvillin- to take the initiative again and a smaller country had to be sought to serve as a mediator. According to Paris newspapers as well as Rome dispatches, the favourite for role is Belgium. King Leopold HI of the Belgians already lias paid two visits to Great Britain, one of wii?rli was a prelude to the Hoare-Laval (iprtakinc Also current is a report that since the death of his queen, Astnd, Kin- Leopold has been extremely depressed and has sought consolation m pi esfetiL ..vViicli he was raised. It the rellgl ° , t ] iat the Roman Catholic is rumoured that t tQ fmd saTisfactoi v compromise solution for the Italo-Ethiopian differences. » l'no' to Genevieve Tabouis, According; _ newspape r Oeuvre, +7nhn now under consideration would the plan n» Bending a committee consist, first, Ethiopia This inquiry of inqui y d action by the would be f oHowe a of TMr . « ..t »P •»»'« to seek peace. takc the form of This action niigi tQ a League " ia " tla an , d France, and with Great Butaii . later be associate!, which Italy m i<rht be expected to The final V e ? l f Ethiopia into zones be the division w hich would be °f influence, oiw , oof t] t n Du ce's given to Italy n entire i y in vain, campaign had noi,