'While Mr, Baldwin has denied that the reported conditions arrived at between Great Britain and France for the settlement of the Tialo~ Ethiopian dispute are correct in their entirety, there 1s sulMcient in his ad~ mission' thay there had been, a leak in Paris to justify the belief that the reports are approximately correct 'That being so the attitude of LI Duce the Abyssinian Emy at present reported i me terest. There is that Signor Mussolini may accept terms suggested, while, apparently Emperor Halle Selassie' is emphatic that he will rot which gives any must be very mpathy for him on the siond he is adopting. Tris sound in principle and in full accord with the main design of the Covenant of the League. It is unfortunate that disputes between countries can rarely" be settled on the basis of principles, and that sxpedieney very often provides solu tions which" would "o.herwise be completely unobtainable. Thus the Negus may be faced with the unpleasant alternatives of either con-Senting 10 relinquish a large portion of his territory, or being burdened Wwith some of the blame for the con-Unuance of hostilities, in which event itis by no means unlikely that the League will go no further with the proposed all embargo. It is impos-Sible not to. sympathize with the predicament in which the Negus finds himself. At the same time there will undoubtedly be created a feeling of great uneasiness amongst the enthusiastic supporters of the League who may thus find that what looked fat one moment like a potent weapon for securing the peace of the work {ig losing its temper because of the concessions which have to be wrung from the victim of the egression in the Interests of expedience.
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