The league and Mussolini "dealing" with the dispute

Between Jan 1935 - Oct 1935 Mussolini was supposedly negotiating with the league to settle the dispute, but he was shipping his army to Abyssinia. Britain and France pretended not to notice because they wanted an ally against the increasingly militaristic Hitler. In fact, they even signed the Stressa Pact between them all promising to stand up to German aggression