PROTEST AGAINST SANCTIONS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21631, 15 November 1935, Page 13

PROTEST AGAINST SANCTIONS

N.Z. Receives Note From Italy PROCEDURE ATTACKED (pftfiss Associ.vnor.' t) : .leora:.;.) WELLINGTON, November 14. An Italian note, handed to the Prime Minister to-day by the Italian Consul (Signer G. Formichella), dealing with the proposed imposition of sanctions against Italy, says: '•The Italian Government has eontested tho foundation or! the deliberations adopted at Geneva in Iho Itaio-Ethiopian conflict and objects to the application oi' sanctions on the grounds that the reasons set forth in the Italian memorandum to the league have not been adequately considered, and that the covenant has not been applied in its dispositions. "Italy contends that the procedure adopted in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, while pretending strictly to abide by the letter of the covenant had. in reality, killed its spirit Tiro governments of many States. Lh rough rigid and hasty developments, have been induc-ed to ["..insider and predispose the application against Italy of measures (if pressure devised by a committee or coordination, which is not at all an organ of the League of Nations, and which has been, and still is, carrying out its wo!'!; without Italy being in any way ammisad of it. Each government, remains, therefore, the: individual judge of and is respou- j sible for the measures adopted towards Italy, as well as of the legal just ihcal ion. "Tire Italian Government draws the full, attention of every member at the League of Nations t«i the gravity of the measures thai, the jo-ordmation committee proposes to j apply against Italy and to the con- j sequences they threaten, not onlyj to a sweat, nation to which belongs! fin c.-.santial part, in the work ofi reconstruction anal collaborat ion, which is one of the main attributes :>l tiu League of Nations, but. also !o an alreariv much distressed world." '"Very Existence of People" Nobody, the note added, could :'ontest tiie right and necessity in' which the Jialian Government j would find itself to defend and en-1 Hire the very existence of its loopio. The Italian Government ! .vould thus be compelled m adopt .vouomic and financial measures which might entail, among other hings. substantial deviations of the mesent channels of exchange and wattle in order to provide all that vas needed for the lite of the union, Sanctions and count ■.•r-sanct ions would finally firing iorih verv erious consequences of a moral psychological order, provohim.. pirhual p-.Tlm haiien. which mi.'du est. long alter th-> time when sarw:°es vroui-i ];■",. iuhii'erl their unctions and achieved the result f increasing ihe economic disorder >f the world. The Italian Government, the note ; onc'.uded. would appreciate bene,! id vised as to law the New Zca- ! and Government proposed to act villi regard to the restrictive meaures proposed agau-st Italy. ITALIAN NOTK ST I'D IK I) IN BRITAIN no ( iiANt.r: ok ai rninf: I.IK F.I, v IS:! i l-ll rill'lf i .!, Y.'l.a I . ~ i RUGBY'. November 14. The Halian Note to the British aid other Governments protesting igainst. tiie imposition of economic :anctions is still under eonsideraion by the British Government. No remediate rejoinder to the Italian lemarche is expected in London, as t is assumed that the Government, vill wish to consult the other pow- i 'is to which the note has been adiressed before deciding on the form, )f its reply. ' | There is no reason to suppose thatj he British Government will change! ts view, which has so often been j '."pressed, that, the issue was be- j ween Italy and the league, and not j R'Uveen Italy and Britain vr any) >ther league power. " i The Irish Free State to-night j iassed a bill authorising sanctions j igainst Italy, which will become aw to-morrow,