HAILE SELASSIE’S FUTURE
OFFER BY MUSSOLINI SUGGESTED CORNER OF ABYSSINIA AS KINGDOM (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright) (Received May 19, 6.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. The suggestion that Signor Mussolini might be induced to offer Haile Selassie a limited area of Abyssinia in which he would be granted internal autonomy under the suzerainty of Italy was strongly pressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Cosmo Lang) in the foreign affairs debate in the House of Lords. A condition of the offer would be tha Haile Selassie would forgo the title of Emperor and undertake to do his utmost to restrain the chiefs from fighting.
The Foreign Secretary (Viscount Halifax) said he fully understood the feeling aroused by anything resembling recognition of the Italian conquest, but it was necessary to reconcile what was practically possible. “When the choice is between peace and war I feel that duty impels me in the direction of peace,” said Lord Halifax. “His Majesty’s Government has never condoned the Italian and never will.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23513, 20 May 1938, Page 5
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