QUESTION OF ARMS
TREATIES VIOLATED
WHAT OF. OTHER STATES?
(Received July 1, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, June 30,
Reviewing the course of war the Emperor Haile Selassie said that it was after the battle of Makale that the Italians, faced by defeat, decided to use all the forbidden methods of warfare.
Referring to the treaty with Italy of 1928, he said that despite its provisions prohibiting recourse to war and providing for conciliation and arbitration, Italy had never ceased to prepare for the conquest of Abyssinia. Treaties ot friendship, he added, served merely to conceal Italy's true aims.
He recalled decisions taken by the Council and. the Assembly which ended in declaring that Italy had violated the Covenant and was the aggressor. It was true that Ethiopia was incapable of defending herself without armaments, aircraft, or outside help. Her fate might be the fate of any other small nation, even a European country. There had, he said, been no real attempt to, stop the aggressor and the raising of sanctions meant the abandonment of Ethiopia to the aggressor. Were States going to ci-cate the terrible precedent of bowing before force? ■ . ■
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Evening Post, Issue 154, 1 July 1936, Page 10
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