MOTIONS FOR DEBATE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1935, Page 11

MOTIONS FOR DEBATE

LORDS AND COMMONS

PARTY OPINIONS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 14, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 13. Lord Davies has given notice of his intention to move in the House of Lords on Wednesday: That this House will not assent to any settlement of the Italo-Ethi-opian dispute which ignores our international obligations Under the Covenant of the League by granting , the .aggressor State greater concessions after its unprovoked aggression than would have been obtained by peaceful negotiations. This motion is in the same terms as one of which notice has been given by certain Conservative members in the House of Commons, where it is expected that the .debate will take place on Thursday, although a definite decision may not be taken until there is some indication of the reception which is given to the peace proposals at Geneva. « The terms of the motion to be tabled by the Liberal section of the Opposition states That this House condemns any settlement which violates the territorial integrity or political and economic dependence of Abyssinia in favour of the declared aggressor, and would regard any settlement on these lines as a betrayal of the League of Nations and as an act of national dishonour. "GRAVELY PERTURBED." A deputation consisting of Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lord Cecil, Lord Allen, and Professor Gilbert Murray waited on the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, this morning, and presented a resolution passed yesterday by the executive of the League of Nations Union, which declared itself "gravely perturbed" by the declarations on the Paris negotiations. The deputation remained for an hour and a half with the Prime Minister.