SINGLE VOICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 156, 3 July 1936, Page 7

SINGLE VOICE.

NEW ZEALAND ALONE, j Day of the Smaller Powers at Geneva. LEAGUE REFORM MOVES. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) GENEVA, July 2. The outstanding speeches in the third' day of the meeting of the League Assembly were those of Mr. S. M. Bruce, Sir James Parr, and Mr. de Valera. Otherwise it was the day of the small Powers. Again only one voice was raised against the dropping of sanctions. On the previous day it was Mr. te Water's, to-day it was Sir James Parr's. There is a wide divergence of views as to how the Covenant should be altered. Many speakers remain to be heard. Meanwhile a drafting committee will consider resolutions and suggestions which delegations are submitting. In view of the Assembly's vote the French have drafted a resolution establishing a special committee to study all proposals for reform of the Covenant and suggesting procedure for immediate application of economic and financial sanctions in a case of aggression. A resolution to be submitted to the Assembly must record the lifting of sanctions and will probably contain a declaration of non-recognition of the annexation of Abyssinia. Haile Silassie tabled a resolution asking a loan from the League of £10,000,000 and another calling on the Assembly to proclaim non-recognition of the annexation. Ras Nasibu, in a covering Note, says the Emperor is doing this in order to permit a frank expression by the majority of the members of the League. ITALIAN BITTERNESS. JOURNALISTS EXPELLED. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 2. The Italian journalists who were forcibly removed from the League building for interjections when Haile Silassie rose to address the Assembly were today expelled from the canton of Geneva, some returning to Italy and others attempting to report the League proceedings from Coppee, eight miles away, over the border. Not only did the eight journalists concerned have their League cards tnken away, but also their cards for the Dardanalles Conference at Montreux. A cable message from Rome says it is a disgrace that at Geneva, the representatives of the League members listened to Haile Silassie's insults to Italy, says Signor Gayda in a violent article in*"Giornale d'ltalla," in which he stigmatises Haile Silassie as a "ribald sadist who abandoned his capital to plunderers with an invitation to destroy, regardless, white men, their friends." Signor Gayda claims that the Italian march on Addis Ababa saved the white inhabitants, tliougli tlie march was not covered by Italian defence, as was proved by an assault on the Italian column on May 13, which resulted in many Italian soldiers being killed and wounded. The article concludes: "After the Emperor's speech, the generosity of the haste of the Italian march must be regretted." LOCARNO POWERS. MEETING THIS MONTH LIKELY. British Official Wireless. (Received 12;30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 2. There seems to be a probability, as a result of private conversations at Geneva between the British, French and Italian delegates, that a meeting of the Locarno Powers will take place towards the end of the month, possibly in Brussels. At their last meeting it was decided that the Powers meet again after a reply had been received to the questions addressed to Berlin by the British Government upon certain points in iverr Hitler's proposals. Even in the continued absence of such a reply it is considered in some quarters that a" meeting in a few weeks' time should nevertheless take place to consider the situation. DRENCHED IN BLOOD. FEAR FOR EUROPE. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 2. Speaking at the League Assembly, Mr. de Valera urged the Great Powers to meet now in a peace conference to prevent war rather than to wait for a conference which would have to be held after Europe had once more been drenched in blood.