ABYSSINIAN RIGHTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 9

ABYSSINIAN RIGHTS

QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, July IS. Replying in the House of Commons to a question regarding the maintenance of Abyssinia’s rights as a member of the League of Nations, Mr. Anthony Eden said that His Majesty ’s Government, in endeavouring to fur ther an amicable settlement of the •Jtalo-Ethiopian dispute, have had. and will continue to have, full regard for the rights and obligations of the States which are members of the League of Nations. ‘‘What Abyssinia really needs to-day —and this the League of Nations could supply—would be one or two foreign advisers who would be responsible, not to the Governments of their respective 11 tions but to the League of Nations.’' writes Lady Simon, the foremost antislavery crusader in England. “One inevitably thinks, iu this connection, of men of the type of the late Lord Cromer and Lord Lingard, of whom, happily, there are still a number in the service of the Powers.’’ Such talk as “the Abyssinian pistol pointed at Italy’s side must be removed for ever” is simply an excuse, expressed in exaggerated language, for absorption of a rich country. Italy is bound by at least four documents signed by her, to prefer peace to war iu dealing with Abyssinia. The light ing some months ago that opened up this new volume in . Italo-Abyssinian relations occurred many miles within the Abyssinian frontier, iu territory which Italy long ago recognised «« Abyssinian, and there is the evidence of four British officers, who witnessed the affair, that the Italians were the aggressors.