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...convinced that when Benito Mussolini has answered he has answered, British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden, and French Premier Pierre Laval spent an exasperating week in Paris trying to find out officially from Italian League Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi what Italy really wants of Ethiopia...
...gone even farther, making with Premier Mussolini a pact in which France gave Italy a "free hand" against Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21) in return for Italian support at the subsequent Stresa Conference on German rearmament. Thus last week Mr. Eden and Premier Laval knew they were asking Baron Aloisi to ask Premier Mussolini a repeat-question which could only infuriate the Dictator...
...those pre-Fascist days keen, hard little King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy had picked hawk-eyed,, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided...
Benito Mussolini, after he became Premier, used Aloisi to set up one Zogu as Zog I, King of Italian-protected Albania (TIME, Sept. 10, 1928). Later the Baron was sent to Turkey, negotiated the famed Pact of Amity between Dictator Kemal and Dictator Mussolini. For Baron Aloisi last week Professor Jeze was a pushover. The Italian pointed out to French Premier Pierre Laval that Sorbonne professors are employes of the French State and that therefore Professor Jeze had no business representing Ethiopia while he was also working for France. After that, the professor was not invited to the scene...
There the Big Three of last week, grim Aloisi, affable Laval and Britain's young Captain Anthony Eden, who vividly remembers the talking-to he recently received in Rome from Il Duce, sat around devising what the League calls a "formula." Every few hours Baron Aloisi would read the latest text by long distance telephone to Premier Mussolini and the Dictator would snort, ''Unacceptable...