Eden proceeded, could not ' allow farms to go from the Sudan to western Abyssinia so long as there was no probability that they would be received by any constituted authority or serve any purpose other than promoting civil war.
He had informed the Ethiopian' Minister in London to this effect.
Replying to a further question as to whether, in the event of there being a government in western Abyssinia responsible to the Emperor, there would be any objection to arms going in, the Foreign Secretary said that would create an entirely different! situation,
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