London, May 6. (ONTINUANCE of economic and financial sanctions against Italy was urged by the Labour Opposition in the House of Commons to-day in the course of a vigorous attack against the Government's policy in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute.
The debate was notable in more ways than one, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Labour member for the Kingswinford division of Stafford, besides backing up the suggestion for continuance of sanctions, proposed the withdrawal of Ambassadors from Rome and the expulsion of Italy from the League of Nations.
Mr. Winston Churchill waxed sarcastic at the expense of the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin.
He cited Mr. Baldwin's remark that he felt bitterly humiliated, and said: "We feel bitterly humiliated, too, and by whom?"
Defending the Government's policy, the Foreign Secretary, Mr, Anthony Eden, pointed out that, if Britain had not pressed for military sanctions against Italy, it was because of her horror of war and not fear of the ultimate outcome. amid ironical laughter from' the consequently, no vote.
The debate was opened for the Labour Opposition by Mr. Hugh Dal-on, member for the Bishop Auckana division of Durham, who charg-Jed the Government with the responsibility of having discredited the League and the whole idea of collec tive security and betrayed the trust of the electors.
accused the Government with falling to full its obligations under the Covenant, particularly Article XVI (which. deals with with encouraging the Abyssinians to resist, in the belief that they would receive help from the League; with leaving the Abyssinians to their fate; with having given no effective help of any kind, but, on the contrary, helped Signor Mussolini to destroy them by permitting the supply of indispensable oil, and, particularly, witn profiting out of the sale of all through the "Government-holding Anglo Iranian Oil Ca, 'This was not a narrow issue, he said, between defeated Abyssinia and victorious Moly. Tt was an issue between the League as a whole and the declared' aggressor state which, aided by an overwhelming superior ity of armaments and by a breach of a convention solemnly entered into not to use the most barbarous wea pons which science had made possible, to-day had, for a moment, won, jin conditions of great inequality, a notable victory.
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