Generous feeling alone impels admiration for the dignity of the Emperor Haile Selassie. Those who have followed the misfortunes of Ethiopia Kmow well that the Emperor "has Deen charged with the heavy. task of leading to reform and improvement a people who required time for the operation of the necessary spt {ual impulse and sense of national cohesion, The defeat indicted by the Ttallens has been on the Assembly itself which has not been able to' secure for Ethiopia the tolerance allowed to other' members of the League. It is highly appropriate that the Emperor should have been. accorded permission to address the Assembly. His dignified declaration must have carried a poignant reproof to all who heard it. European civil-Hzation does not come well out of the encounter as-the last ruler of an Independent African nation 1s impelled to remind the League of its own Principles and its breach of them. Even less creditable is the amazingly {Ml-judged "demonstration by certain Italians present. It is satisfactory to Know that they were not members of. the International Association of Journalists, but satisfaction ends there. There are certain rules of conduct which most nations recogni ize as imperative—one of them prescribes gentlemanly behaviour toward a fallen foe and magnanimity in the hour of victory. The Tlaliaa Government will do well if tt takes an early opportunity to disclaim any association with a most regrettable and unchivalrous outburst.
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