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After Their Majesties had all safely left France this week, attention shifted to the further trial at Aix-En-Provence of three Croat terrorists, accused as accomplices of King Alexander's assassin who was killed by police. Expert testimony proved last week that bullets fired by police in the wild melee winged eight persons while the assassin winged only three...
Wily Greek. League of Nations activity began to stir when British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden motored from Geneva over to Aix-les-Bains in France for dinner with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. About 2 a. m. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Dictator Mussolini's Chief Delegate to the League, also arrived at Aix-les-Bains and went to bed. At 9:30 next morning the hard, astute Fascist Baron breakfasted with comfortable, pipe-sucking Stanley Baldwin and they conferred for an hour before the minister wound up his holiday water-cure and returned to London...
...cracking down on Il Duce. The Archbishop of York publicly hoped that the League of Nations will ask and obtain aid of the Great Powers to close the Suez Canal against Italian forces, thus barring the eagles of Fascism from their prey. Finally up from the French baths of Aix heaved Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and, amid a sensational recalling of the whole British Cabinet from their various vacation hideouts, the Empire was geared for action. Arriving from Scotland one-time Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald cried: "The present situation is the most serious we have had to face since...
...Prime Minister returned across the Channel to bathe in and imbibe the waters of Aix. It was announced that His Majesty's Government, which has been aiding Italy by refusing to sell arms either to Italy, which has plenty, or to Ethiopia, which is short, would probably not lift this embargo at least until after the League Council meets on Sept. 4. After all the dominion representatives in London had been discreetly contacted, Premier Forbes of New Zealand excitedly declared, 11,682 miles away in Wellington: "If Great Britain is involved in war New Zealand will be also...
...England to bring the Malta garrison up to full strength. Even more ominously the aircraft carrier Furious was rushed full steam from Gibraltar to Malta with three squadrons of planes aboard. These drastic British fighting service moves-considering that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had resumed his soaking & sipping at Aix as though he had not a care in the world-struck Continental observers as illogical, fantastic and a perilous example of what is called "the genius of the British for muddling through." Scare heads in London papers suggested that, for all anybody knew, tons of Fascist bombs might...