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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...
...Atrocious Practices." Next in Geneva the Italian case against Ethiopia was opened before the Council by Baron Pompeo Aloisi with a harsh, heavily documented address, while Italian aides passed around among the statesmen pictures taken in Ethiopia. As Captain Anthony Eden and his entourage fingered them, a Briton snorted, "The most revolting exhibit ever produced!" Wrinkling his French nose, Premier Laval remarked, "Nice, aren't they...
...word 'front'," weaseled Baron Aloisi, "was a mistake...
...last, Baron Aloisi was persuaded to telephone this to Premier Mussolini who had spent most of the week at the wheel of his racing car dashing from one troop ship on the point of sailing to the next. "Crush all before you!" he had been telling battalion after battalion of cheering troops. "The hour of destiny for Italy has struck...
...Aloisi was put on the wire. Il Duce heard him out. "Laval clearly agreed to Italian predominance in Ethiopia," the Dictator finally said. "If Laval now says that I have gone too far, I am ready and willing to meet Laval again and talk it over once more...