SANCTIONS SPEECH

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 220, 13 June 1936, Page 17

SANCTIONS SPEECH

Mr. Chamberlain’s Views

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS

(British Oflicial Wireless.) Rugby, June IL

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, was reported in to-day’s papers as having severely criticised in a speech at a political dinner in London last night suggestions that the League sanctions imposed in connection with the Italian resort to war in East Africa should be continued following the collapse of the Ethiopian resistance, or even intensified. These reports were the subject of a question addressed by private notice to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons this afternoon by the Leader of the Opposition. Major Attlee asked whether Mr. Chamberlain’s speech represented the policy of the Government. Mr. Baldwin replied that the Chancellor had informed him that the suggestions he had put forward were definitely stated by him to be provisional reflections on the Italo-Ethio-pian dispute which had occurred to him personally. Major Attlee then asked if the view’s expressed by the Chancellor were the considered views of the Government. The Prime Minister answered that no conclusions on these matters had yet been reached. Pressed bv leaders of both sections of the Opposition to say if the expression of private views by a Minister was consistent with tradition and constitutional usage and was not embarrassing to the other Ministers, Mr. Baldwin replied: “I make no complaint myself of what the right, hon. gentleman said.” FIRST PUBLIC SPEECH IN ENGLAND Selassie Urges Continued Faith in League London, June 11. The Abyssinian Emperor, Haile Selassie, attended his first public luncheon in England when he was the guest of the League of Nations Union. The chairman. Dr. Gilbert Murray, toasted his health. Haile Selassie, in replying, said that there was current an unfortunate tendency to consider the League in its present form as incapable of continued existence and of further action to prevent war. He added that Abysslnians in the Wallo. Chercher. and other occupied provinces were rising against their oppressors, while the western third of Ethiopia was still under the government of its lawful authorities. This was not the moment for abandonment of confidence in the League. The Emperor, Haile Selassie, will leave for Vevey, Switzerland, on June 17 and will occupy his own chalet there. GRAZIANI VICEROY Resignation of Badoglio Rome, June 11. Marshal Badoglio has been relieved of the position of Viceroy of Abyssinia at his own request and Marshal Graziani succeeds him. The former has been created Duke of Addis Ababa. Signor Ottavio di Peppo succeeds Baron Alois! as chief of the Foreign Ministry. Count Ciano may replace Baron Alolsl at Geneva if Italy retains her membership of the League. Italian newspapers give, prominence to Mr. Neville Chamberlain’s speech, declaring that it is the severest blow yet struck by a British politician against the maintenance of sanctions.