Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-07-27 | Page 1 | Duce Threatens to Quit League

U I THREATENS EAT ENS 0 TO QUIT 11 jl l j LEAGUE e C Italy Demands Handling Of African Row on Basis Of Renewed Arbitration Note Insists on Settlement Settle ment of Border BorderI I Dispute First By United Press Preil GENEVA July 27 27 21 Italy will consider con sider alder leaving the league of nations unless the council considers considers' the Italo-Ethiopian Italo dispute on the basis basil of renewed arbitration only Premier Pre Premier mier Benito Mussolini said today in iii ina a n note nate te to the league The League Secretarial published the veiled warning of the Duce Duc shortly after It Had Bad announced that the league council would m meet et Wednesday Jul July 31 31 to resume its lii deliberation on the East Africa dis dis- dispute Mussolini thus drew the lin Unit line sharply between the Italian Italia and Ethiopian positions on the councils council's s possible courses of action Ethiopia has demanded that the 4 entire background back council counell take up tip the ground of the dispute and arid move actively to avert the threatened war wat Italy maintained that the councils council's only course is to follow a strictly legalistic attitude toward the dispute dis the matter back to the conciliation commission that ran Into an Im Impasse e 1 in its delibera delibera- dons in Holl Holland nd id Italy has put t the e emphasis on settlement of ot the e alleged d frontier incidents as th the first and most important important important im im- aspect o of the controversy Wh n Ethiopia's negotiators at at a Sc sought to enlarge the field of the conciliation commission to include the gen general ral background of the East African dispute th the ar- ar ar arbitration arbitration attempts collapsed and the matter was returned to the league council If Italy carries out her threatened course and leaves the league it will wUl mean the practical al end of ot that body The first sign of weakening In the leagues league's fram framework work came when Japan Japan Japan Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pan withdrew as a result of the th Manchurian Manchuria d dispute with China in ia which Japan accomplished it its e ends endE and set up a puppet state despite the leagues league's warnings Then Germany abandoned the in international international in- in organization as WI a pr pro protest pro protest test against the powers' powers refusal t to recognize the reich's equality p prin principally n. n in the field of military armament arma anna ment If Italy withdraws the league Is fi finished as far as its power in inter international national questions is concerned Joseph secretary general of the league replied to Mussolini that he was wiring the Italian leaders leader's loaders loader's load lead ers er's telegram to members of the league council He added that he will forward to Mussolini Immediately Immedi any Ethiopian communication which the league receives