ABYSSINIA TO BE SHUT OUT

Southland Times, Issue 23000, 21 September 1936, Page 7

ABYSSINIA TO BE SHUT OUT

League’s “Solution” Of Difficulty

ITALIAN CONQUEST NOT RECOGNIZED

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Geneva, September 18.

The legal experts of the League of Nations are reported to have found a way out of the Abyssinian tangle, and Abyssinia will remain a full member. The League will not recognize the Italian conquest, but Abyssinia will not be allowed to send a delegation owing to her credentials being invalid, as the Emperor and the Government who signed them are no longer in .Abyssinia. The League of Nations Union passed a resolution trusting that Britain would resist any proposal for depriving Ethiopia of her right of representation at the League. A British Official Wireless message states that the 93rd session of the Council of the League of Nations opened at Geneva under the presidency of Senor Vieuna, of Chile. The Council, which met in private, adopted the agenda and decided in accordance with the requests of the Governments of Iran and Iraq to remove from it the question relating to the frontier dispute between those two countries. It was decided to forward to the Assembly the communications received from 18 governments about the application of the principles of the Covenant. The Secretary-General (M. Joseph Avenol) 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 (Count Galeazzo Ciano) and the head of the Government. He informed the Council that Signor Mussolini had made it a condition of Italy’s participation in the work of the present Assembly that no Abyssinian delegation should be present, and he reported that he had told Signor Mussolini that this was a question to be decided by the Credentials Committee of the Assembly. The Council held no discussion on this point.