THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—England is humiliated. In our anxiety to carry out the Covenant of the League, we and other members have played into the hands of Italy. She obtained all the war material necessary for her aggression through her Eritrea and Somaliland ports, whilst . Abyssinia has been denied the facility of obtaining the means necessary to defend herself. Had she been allowed delivery of a hundred aero- planes she could have played such havoc with the munition vessels at Massowah and similar ports and harassed the advance of the Italians to such an extent that Abyssinia would not have been in her present precarious position.
In view of this, what can we now do for her ? If the League cannot save half of that country for the Ethiopians would it be practical politics to offer them the hospitality and protection of British Somaliland? Some gesture should be made to compensate for our inability to see fair play.—
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