GENEVA SUCCESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 May 1935, Page 7

GENEVA SUCCESS

ITALO-ABYSSIN lAN DISPUTE

REFERENCE TO ARBITRATION

MR EDEN’S TRIUMPH. (United Press Association—By Electric i Telegraph.—Copyright.) GENEVA, May 25. The Council of the League of Nations assembled at 1.30 a.m., M. Litvinoff, the Russian Commissar of Foreign Affairs, presiding, and adopted a resolution embodying a compromise in the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. This reaffirms the arbitration clause in the 1928 Treaty, and fixes a time limit for the Council meeting and provides lor arbitration. A message from London states that the newspapers enthusiastically pay a. tribute to Mr R. A. Eden (Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs), who is described as the “terriblo young man who wants peace so badly.” They declare that .he scored his greatest success when ho persuaded the ironlisted Signor .Mussolini to change his mind after a tense, long-range duel. 'The meeting of the Council of the League of Nations closed with a shower of bouquets for Mr Eden. Baron Aloisi (Italy) jiraised Mr Eden’s broadminded comprehension, and expressed appreciation of his achievements. The procedure is that the dispute is referred to four conciliation commissioners, who, if no settlement is reached by July 25, choose a neutral group of fifty members to proceed with arbitration. The Council will meet if a settlement is not reached by August 25. The Abyssinian representative said he expected Italy, during the negotiations, to suspend the dispatch of forces.

Baton Aloisi said that if Italy accepted the procedure of conciliation and arbitration it was because she proposed to conform therto. The Conciliation Committee does not include any Abyssinians. Ratification of the frontiers will be considered after the incidents are settled.