1938-05-07 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1938.

ABYSSINIA NOT TO DIE QUIETLY Haile Selassie To Fight Conquest Recognition

FILM STAR

HELPS SULTAN

SEEK BRIDE

Johore is going to America this

Representative To Sit At Geneva

The League Council is not to be allowed to Fabulously wealthy Sultan of wash its hands quietly and quickly of Abyssinia.

When it meets on May 9, a representative of summer to marry an actress who the Emperor Haile Selassie will be there, claiming must be slim, seductive, dark-hair- under the Article IV of the Covenant the right to ed, with the exotic charm of Miss sit, speak and vote in the Council when it discusses

resembles Dorothy Lamour. She

Lamour.

Film director Clyde Elliott re- vealed Sultan's wife-hunting

ex-

"The Sultan raves about Dorothy

Abyssinia.

pedition when he returned from Unless the Council denies him that right Malay with the picture "Booloo," which it hardly can, since legally Abyssinia is still Lamour since he saw her in Jungle a member of the League and Haile Selassie still Princess,' " he said.

sovereign of Abyssinia he will argue that the The Sultan hopes to find a wife in Ethiopian Empire is still an independent State time to celebrate his sixty-fifth waging war against an invader. birthday on September 9. Last

But Miss Lamour is married.”

RIGHT TO VOTE

cannot

lini will be furious if he is allowed to sit at the Council table.

RULE IS CLEAR

H.K. MINES

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Governments about procedure at the Council meeting.

And evidently the chief matter for discussion was how to deal

which the Emperor has so unkindly 'created for them.

with the embarrassing situation

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EMPEROR'S WIRE They had all hoped to get away

with it by simply omitting to send the invitation. But Haile Selassie

is forcing their hands.

He wired to M. Avenol:-

"I learn that the Ethiopian ques- tion will be placed on the agenda of the session of the League Council to be held next May.

month he divorced his Scottish He will produce facts to show No doubt ways and means will "According to the Covenant, if a wife, formerly Mrs. Helen Wilson. that the Italians are by no means be sought to exclude the Emperor's question affecting a Member of the Told that the Sultan of Johore is de facto-let alone de jare-mas-representative. For Signor Musso- League not represented on the going to seek a bride who resem-ters of the country.

Council is raised before the latter, bles her, Dorothy Lamour, cabled

the State concerned has the right thanking him for his flattery, 'pro- They will be facts which other

to be represented therein. mising to entertain him and to in-members of the Council

But Article IV, par. 5, is specific. "Consequently, and in order to troduce him to Olympe Bradna.

refute because they are backed "Any member of the League not defend the interests of my people, Dorothy Lamour is married to up by all independent evidence. represented on the Council shall which is fighting for its indepen- Herb Kay.

And they will make it ex-be invited to send a representative dence, I shall communicate to you ceedingly embarrassing for Mr. to sit as a member at any meeting in due course the names of my re- Chamberlain and Lord Halifax. of the Council during the considera- | presentatives for the Council Moreover, the Abyssinian deletion of matters specially affecting well as for the Assembly when any Will gate will have the right to vote on that member of the League." question concerning Ethiopia comes Have any resolution: and no resolution M. Avenol, the Secretary-General before the latter.

"(Signed) Love, will be operative unless it is unani- of the League, has been to Paris

Haile Selassie, Em- and London to consult with the two 'peror."

The Sultan, who recently divorced his Scottish wife, formerly Mrs. Helen Wilson, cabled back: "Many thanks for cable. wire definitely when coming.

heard about divorce?

you Ibrim."

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