Word: aloisi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clock. At 4:45 p. m. Belaten Guetta Wolde Mariam Ayelen, Ethiopia's League delegate, accompanied by his secretary and Swiss legal adviser, arrived at the Palace, went directly to the Council room. In a few minutes in walked Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Anthony Eden and other members of the Council. Captain Eden gravely presided...
...Baron Aloisi rolled his eye at the little black man in the corner...
Wolde Mariam slipped into a chair, and Baron Aloisi puffed like a turkey...
...room stalked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as Ethiopia's Mariam rose to read a pitiful telegram from nerve-shattered Haile Selassie, begging the League to "take no action that would legitimize Italy's outrageous aggression...
Prop For Eden. At this point the British Government realized that something must be done to restore the prestige of Anthony Eden and take a little cockiness out of Baron Aloisi. Slow-moving Stanley Baldwin hoisted himself on a lecture platform in Worcester to defend Britain's temporizing on sanctions, and his Foreign Secretary...