THE SANCTIONS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1936, Page 5

THE SANCTIONS

NO LONGER USEFUL BRITISH PRONOUNCEMENT Press Association Electric Teloeranh—Convr'eh' LONDON, Thursday. (Received Friday, 9.45 a.m.) In the House of Commons the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Air Anthony Eden, announced that the Government had come to the conclusion that sanctions no longer had any utility as a means of bringing pressure to bear on Italy. RESTORATION OF LEAGUE. A BRITISH TASK. RUGBY", Thursday. In the House of Commons' Air Anthony Eden said the Government would devote itself to restoring the League to its full authority. Air Eden said the fact had to be faced that the sanctions imposed had not realised the purpose for which they were applied. Abyssinia was in Italian military occupation and, as far as he was aware, no Abyssinian Government survived in any part. of Abyssinia. It could not be expected that a continuation of the existing measures of economic pressure would restore the position in Abyssinia. Nothing but military action from outside could possibly do that and, as far as he knew, no other governments, and certainly not the British Government, were prepared, to take such military action. Though the League of Nations had not availed to prevent the successful accomplishment of the violation of the Covenant, the Government did not regret, Mr Eden emphasised, nor did he believe their fellow League members regretted, having made an attempt to stop such violations. For that they had nothing to apologise for and nothing to retract.

Air Eden said the reciprocal assurances exchanged last December between the governments of certain Alediterranean Powers, including His Majesty’s Government, should not end with the raising of the sanctions, if the League Assembly decided to raise them, but •should continue during a period of uncertainty which must necessaril3 r follow. Mr Eden added that, in the light of the experience of recent months, the Government had determined that it was necessary that Britain should permanently maintain in the Mediterranean a defensive position stronger than that Which existed before the dispute between Italy and Ethiopia broke out. Mr Eden discussed the future of the League, which, he said, needed to be earnestly and urgently considered by all its members and declared that the Government was determined that the League should go on. The fact that the League had been tried and had failed to arrest aggression was a reason, not Tor regretting the attempt but for seeking to reorganise it so that it might have a better chance to succeed hereafter.— British Wireless. “SANCTIONS MUST GO.” AIR DE VALERA’S VIEW. (Received Friday, 9.45 a.m.) DUBLIN, Thursday. Air E. De Valera declared in the Dail that sanctions had failed and must go, adding the League of Nations no longer commanded the confidence of the people of the world.