Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier this year, when Italy was making the larger show of Might, Geneva weaseled around all Ethiopia's appeals, clear up to the ingenious decision by League Arbiter Nicolas Politis on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (TIME, Sept. 16) that neither side and nobody was to blame. Last week Might tipped Geneva's scale against Italy at a secret conference of League bigwigs ending at 11:10 a. m. At 11:40 the Council of the League was to make in public the decision reached in private. Two minutes before this public session began, Italy...
...last week there was more than one deft finesse,* but by acting under Article XV the following trains of events were made possible. First, the Council, sitting as a Committee of Thirteen (the Italian Councilman and the Ethiopian Delegate being excluded), must draft a fresh League report on Italy & Ethiopia, and last week Communist Councilman Litvinoff of Russia said candidly that he will try to have it made much harsher toward Fascist Italy than the previous report of the Committee of Five (TIME, Sept...
Technically the Committee of Thirteen has until next spring to draw up its report and under Article XII all League States, including Italy and Ethiopia, are bound not to go to war in a given dispute until three months after the Council has rendered its report. Councilmen said last week that they expect to report within a fortnight...
After the report is in, if it be accepted by one disputant (say Ethiopia) and rejected by the other (say Italy), then if, but only if, the rejector makes war upon the acceptor, the whole constellation of League States is bound under Article XI to take action "deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations...
...lost all around and blood will begin to flow. Last week, though the first step toward sanctions had been taken under Article XV, alternative possibilities were more numerous than neophytes not familiar with League loopholes could imagine. For example the Committee of Thirteen could draft a report such that Ethiopia might reject. Italy accept and the League be compelled to let Italy and other States conduct a war of sanctions against Ethiopia in the role of aggressor or Italy could withdraw from the League, as Japan did when threatened by a Council report, also under Article XV (TIME, April...