SANCTIONS MUST CEASE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13285, 17 June 1936, Page 5

SANCTIONS MUST CEASE.

BRITISH CABINET DECISION. LEADING LEAGUE S RETREAT. United Press iissn.— By Electric T elegra ph—-Co py ugh t. LONDON, June 15. According to tne Daily Mail a • hurried meeting or members oi uabinet, including Mr A. tden held in tne Prime Minister’s room aecmed tnat sanctions must be arofaped and tnat Britain lead the League in a retieat from tne sanctions peqey. Twenty speakers at tne weekly meeting oi tne conservative members’ committee were unanimous tnat sanctions must be termit ea ten. MORE CONCESSIONS WANTED. LONDON, June 16. The Moaning Past’s political correspondent. says Mr Eden’s speech m the Commons on June 18 announcing the Government.’s decision to propose the raising of sanctions will follow closely on the lines of Mr Neville Chamber iain 7 s speech on June 11. He will point out that sanctions i ailed either to. prevent or to end the Abyssinian war or to preserve the independence of Abyssinia, and in view of this there is no logical or practical justification m maintaining them. Tnere have been no Cabinet differences regarding this. The only hesitancy lias been whether Britain should lead at Geneva or leave the initiative to the Assembly. The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent says semi-official circles are now declaring that the lifting <*f sanctions will not lie enough to allow Italy to again collaborate in European affairs. They are suggesting ttiat a more positive gesture is needed, namely, the simultaneous reversal of the League’s aggression, verdict.

DUCE IN FRIENDLY MOOD. LONDON, June 16. The Sun-Herald s correspondent says a section of the Press continues to suggest grave Cabinet differences in connection with the forthcoming sanctions decision and tliax Air Eden s resignation is imminent. Such rumours, however, are without foundation and are primarily designed to force Mr Eden from the Cabinet but are unlikely to succeed. When Air Eden announces the abandonment of sanctions on Thursday he will outline Mussolini’s memorandum which says that apart from accepting any diminution in Italian sovereignty in Abyssinia the Italians are ready to meet Britain’s desires in every possible way. Assurances will be given that henceforth Italy belongs territorially to tlie “satisfied” Powers.

The Duce pledges himself not to raise a Black Army in Abyssinia, declaring that he has no* further African territorial ambitions. The Duce is also ready to conclude* a Aled-iter-ranean Pact with Britain and France accompanied by a limitation of naval armaments to include Greece and Turkey if they desire. Further. .Italy is ready to support the British viewpoint for a reform of the League Covenant. The Italians intimate that in the event of Britain rejecting collaboration they will turn to Germany.