(Containued from pave 212.) thing through. He hoped. therefore, hat the Government, in ce-operation with other members, would continue press for, and even insist on, an, erly discussion of what the terms of the final settlement of the dispute were to be, Those terms ought not to depend.
the success or failure of the campaign. The settlement ought to be considered in the absteast without reference to what might happen in Abyssinia, Tord Hardinge of Penshurst said that Italy's aggressive attack could be sufficiently condemned, but he had no sympathy with the Abyssinian Government, which had broken pledges just as Italy had done and had entirely ignored the conditions under which it had entered the League of Nations.
He urged the British Governmer to retrain from any sanctions which might be interpreted as being of niilitary character and may precipit: ate war.
Lord Mottistone suggested that a small commission shot la go to Eritrea and another possibly to the Anglo-Egyptain Sudan. and report fully to the League of Nations, Oct, 24. winding up the debate, made only one reference {0 international affairs, namely, an allusion to the "amazing statement" issued by certain quarters this morning that some intrigue was afoot in London, Rome and Paris to present the League with a fait accompli Getrimental to the interests of one of the parties and inconsistent with the principles of the League.
The remainder of Sir John's speech dealt, among other things, witn the decline of exports of British eral to laly which, he said, was not due to sanctions, but to the fact that the Italians had exhausted their credit with exporters.—Reuter.
In the course of the resumed debate on the international situation in the House of Lords, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Long, re~ pudiated any hostility to Italy, for which country, he said, he cherished the warmest feelings.
At was necessary to pay regard to taly's needs, but his contention was that she should have brought her case to the League of Nations and inst taken it into her. own hands.
The action taken by the League was promising. On the first occasion the Signatories of the Covenant had been cadied upon to uphold it, they had not shrunk from doing" so—Wireless through Reuter,
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