Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Mostly the Italian exhibits showed Ethiopians snapped in acts every explorer of the Empire knows to be sanctified by savage custom, namely in the words of Baron Aloisi...
Such a country, declared Baron Aloisi, is unfit to belong to the League of Nations. Next day, on telephonic orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italian delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next...
...fired her imagination with tales of Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale. When Shidzué, at 18, was married, she found that her husband was far more deeply dissatisfied with feudal customs and restraints than she had been. Head of a wealthy and powerful family, a Christian humanist, young Baron Ishimoto became a mining engineer, took his inexperienced bride to the grimy coal fields of western Japan. There they lived for two and a half years on an equal footing with other employes, housed in a miserable thatched hut, on the Baron's salary of $25 per month. Shidzu...