Ambassador Long expressed the view that the situation was fraught with dangers for the future as well as for the present. "A few days later he pointed out in a despatch to the Secretary of State that the long period of friendly cooperation between Italy and Great Britain had come to an end; he feared that it would be genera¬tions before the situation could be cured. The Am¬bassador said that any estimate of future possibilities must be based on one of two alternatives! first, that sufficient force would be applied to stop Italy's adventure and to impose upon it a definite defeat by arms or, second, that Italy would be successful in attaining its objectives in Ethiopia. In the latter case, he said, there would be nothing but trouble in the future; for if the venture were successful, Italy would be emboldened to proceed to others. Ambassador Long declared that Italy must either be defeated "now1 and prevented from realizing its ambitions in East Africa, 'or the trouble will continue on through for a generation as an additional irritation to European politics and an additional menace to world peace.' "On September 12, 1935 Secretary Hull made a public statement of the attitude of this Government. He said that the United States desired peace; that we believed international controversies could and should be settled by peaceful means; that a threat of hostilities