THE ETHIOPIAN WAR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13168, 29 January 1936, Page 5

THE ETHIOPIAN WAR.

TIME RIPE FOR MEDIATION.

VOICE OF the VATICAN. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. VATICAN CITY, Jan. 27. The Osservatore Romano suggests that the time is again favourable for conciliation efforts owing to the success of the Italian military operations in Abyssinia ; also because the danger of the controversy in connection with the Locarno Pact may spread beyond the Mediterranean and because M. Flaiidiii as French Foreign Minister may be able to mollify British opposition aroused by the failure of the Laval-Hoare proposals. The article is understood to express the personal view of the Pope. ITALIAN CONSUL’S REMARK. SYDNEY, January 28. l>r. Mario Desso-ulesg neVly- appointed Italian Consul for New Zealand, who arrived by the Romo-1 *> yesterday, said that Italy was undergoing a complete economic transformation. with total independence as her ultimate goal. “Italy now ha s 44.000,000 people united as one behind Mussolini, ready to die for him and their country,” he said. “They are standing four-square behind him in the lace of the greatest injustice ever done to a nation—the sanctions.” Dr. Dessoules added that the world’s Press had the grave responsibility of giving to the public the truth in all things, but he feared that in its treatment of the Abyssinian situation it had failed to discharge its duty.