LEAGUE MACHINERY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 48, 24 August 1935, Page 9

LEAGUE MACHINERY

HOPES EOR GENEVA

MEETING

EFFORTS TOWARDS PEACE

STRONG WORLD SUPPORT

(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 24, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 23. After yesterday's Cabinet meeting on the Italo-Abyssinian dispute it was understood that the Ministers remaining in London would keep in touch with the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, for consultation, and an informal meeting was held today at 10 Downing Street, at which Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, who is acting as' Prime Minister during Mr. Baldwin's absence" on holiday abroad, the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, and the Secretary of State for War, Lord Halifax, were present. •■•■.-

Mr. Mac Donald is travelling by night train to Lossiemouth.

No important developments in the situation are anticipated before the meeting of the League Council on September 4, though, as indicated yesterday, the British Government will pursue with the French Government the policy announced in Paris of seeking through diplomatic channels any opportunity to help the parlies to the dispute to solve their difficulties.

The expectation in London is that Italy will attend the Council meeting. The hope is expressed in many quarters that she will then make a full statement of her case and that the machinery of the League will he given;a chance to operate to produce a fair and reasonable settlement without recourse to warlike measures. It is believed that strong world opinion is behind the efforts to secure a peaceful solution, and it is not supposed that the possibilities of conciliation still open will be set aside lightly by any member of the League.