LEAGUE APPROVAL LIKELY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 June 1936, Page 5

LEAGUE APPROVAL LIKELY

REFORM OF COVENANT NEXT STEP ATTITUDE OF GERMANY AWAITED (Received 22nd June, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 21st June. The “Sunday Observer” anticipates that the League Assembly will approve of the lifting of sanctions on 30th June, after which actual abrogation will be only a matter of a few days. The League’s next step will be reform of the Covenant and the removal of the defects revealed in the operation of sanctions, which will be a long process. Britain is not making any proposals until German participation in negotiations is certain. Accordingly it is considered an early reply to the British Note is essential, but Berlin is in no hurry over the matter, insisting that it must first know the future relations with Italy, whose active cooperation is imperative for a settlement. Meanwhile British Government departments, including the Foreign Office, is drafting memoranda to facilitate the preparation of the British memorandum.

LEADERSHIP NEEDED TOO MANY CHOPS AND CHANGES PRESTIGE OF BRITAIN FALLEN THROUGHOUT WORLD (Received 22nd June, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 21st June. Mr Winston Churchill (C.) in a speech at Chigwell, said he supported the Government raising sanctions and defended Mr Anthony Eden, who at every stage acted only in agreement with his colleagues. What the country needed was leadership. There had been too many chops and changes. The prestige of Britain had fallen throughout the world.

WEIGHTY CONSIDERATIONS DANGER OF WAR (Received 22nd June, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY. 20th June. Support for the initiative taken by Mr Anthony Eden was forthcoming from Mr de Valera, who speaking in the Dail warmly defended Mr Eden’s action throughout the dispute. He said that the French people already had an experience of what a great European war was. Had they not every reason to hesitate about action that would possibly mean war? He challenged those who said that more severe sanctions should be imposed to ask themselves, were they prepared for war. If they were not then let them not blame those who were stopped by those considerations.

END OF WAR FORMALLY RECOGNISED BY AMERICA ROOSEVELT ISSUES PROCLAMATION y ' WASHINGTON, • 20th June. President Roosevelt issued a proclamation to-day the end of the war between Italy and Ethiopia and the termination of the arms and financial embargoes against belligerents as provided for in the Neutrality Act. Warnings against Americans entering the war zone or travelling in belligerents’ ships is likewise, of course, rescinded. The President issued the proclamation without comment, although semi-official circles said the action was the logical sequel to the British and French retreat from sanctions.