MUSSOLINI'S CONDITIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 6

MUSSOLINI'S CONDITIONS

ATTENDANCE AT GENEVA EXCLUSION' OF ABYSSINIA QUESTION FOR COUNCIL (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 18. The ninety-third session of the Council of the League of Nations opened at Geneva under the presidency of Senor Vicuna, of Chile. The Council.' which met in private, adopted the agenda and decided, in accordance with the request of the Governments of Iran and Iraq, to remove from it the, question relating to the frontier dispute hctwecrt those two countries. It was decided to forward to the Assembly communications received from 18 Governments regarding the application of the principles of the covenant. The secretary-general. M. Ayeiiol, then made a statement on the circumstances in which he recently visited Italy and informed the Council of his conversations in Rome with the Italian Foreign Minister and the head- of the Government, lie informed the council that Signer .Mussolini made it a condition of Italy's participation in the work of the present Assembly that no Abyssinian delegation should' be present, and reported CTi'at he had told Signer .Mussolini ilia!, this was a question to he decided by the credentials committee of the Assembly. The council held no discussion on this point.

The League's legal experts are reported to have found a way out of the Abyssinian tangle. Abyssinia will remain a full member. The League will not recognise the Italian conquest, but Abyssinia will not be allowed to send a. delegation owing to her credentials being invalid as the Emperor and Government who signed them are no longer in Abyssinia.