LEAGUE COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 305, 21 September 1936, Page 9

LEAGUE COUNCIL

M. Avenol Reports on Visit to Rome ITALY AND ABYSSINIA (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 18. The ninety-third session of the Council of the League of Nations opened this evening at Geneva under the presidency of Senor Vicuna, Chile. The Council, which met in private, adopted its agenda and decided, in accordance with a request by the Governments of Iran and Iraq, to remove from it a question relating to the frontier dispute between those two countries. It was decided to forward to the Assembly communications received from 18 Governments regarding the application of the principles of the Covenant. A Geneva message says that the Secretary-General, M. Avenol, then made a statement on the circumstances in which he recently visited Italy, and that he informed the Council of his conversations in Rome with the Italian Foreign Minister and the head of the Government. He informed the Council that Signor Mussolini made it a condition of Italy’s participation in the work of the present Assembly that no Abyssinian delegation should be present, and reported that he had told Signor Mussolini that this was a question to be decided by the Committee of the Assembly. The council held no discussion on this point. Mr. Anthony Eden will leave London on Sunday by air for Paris, en route to Geneva. Opportunity will be taken of his brief stay in the French capital for an interview with the Premier,'M. Blum, with whom it is assumed, he will discuss the general European situation. LAWYERS’ SOLUTION Abyssinian Problem Geneva, September 18. The League’s legal experts are reported to have found a way out of the Aibyssinian tangle. Under the proposal, Abyssinia will remain a full member, the League not recognising the Italian conquest, but Abyssinia not being allowed to send a delegation owing to her credentials being invalid, as the Emperor and the Government who signed them are no longer in Abyssinia. ETHIOPIA’S RIGHTS League of Nations Union Resolution London, September 18. The League of Nations Union passed a resolution trusting that Britain will resist any proposal depriving Ethiopia of the right to representation at the League meetings.