Budapest, Feb. 23.
Police decided to-day to suppress some of the "gloomy Sun-Gay" music of Rudolf Seress and the words of Ladisiaus Javor, after 'a wave of suicides atiributed to the playing of a song written by the Eighteen suicides, including all ages and both sexes, have been reported after playing of the music. Two shot themselves while listening to gypsy violinists, while others hanged themselves, took gas or poison, while listen-Ing to the music played on the gramophone—United Press. action to promote a settlement which would vindicate the collective peace system and secure, by international assistance, the ending of slavery and slave-trading In Abyssinia.
Lord Cecil urged the government to pursue a definite and uniform. policy and he was followed by Lord Lloyd, Lord Mansileld and Lord Mot-tis tone, who criticized the policy of the League of Nations in imposing sanctions as a result of the allan resort to war. They were supported from a pacifist standpoint by Lord. Ponsonby, from whom Lord Strabosli disassociated himself and other Labour Peers.
The next speaker, Lord Davies, said that the policy of the Government, Wit were to be acceptable to public opinion, which was behind the] League Covenant, must be to concentrate on finding a settlement of the dispute in accordance with the principles of the Covenant.
Replying for the Government, Lord Sianhope, after declaring that no request had been received for the consieration of peace proposals and that Ro new proposals for conciliation were being prepared, expressed the opinion that if a" succession of, Proposals were presented to Italy, it would only encourage her to hope for better terms, and to make sug gestions that might encourage Italy continue the struggle was not in the Interests of peace.
Although at one time the imposition of sanctions had brought Italians together almost as one man behind Signor Mussolini, that was not the situation to-day, "and the increasing pressure of saneiions was now having effect. Although it was too soon to say that they had proved to the world that aggression did not pay, he was optimistic and believed that the League would show it had been able to succeed.
With three exceptions, he added, existing sanctions had been imposed fand maintained by all members of the League. The Government, he stressed, had no intention of taking isolated action in the dispute and, with regard to ai sanctions, the Gov-jemment would refrain from any statement until the matter had been, discussed fully at Geneva,—Reuter.
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