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...nations of Eastern Europe. In recent weeks British diplomatic and financial pressure induced Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece verbally to promise Mr. Eden at Geneva that their armed aid could be counted on by Britain were she attacked. The little states were asked to pass this on to Benito Mussolini but declined. Thereat Britain conveyed the information to Il Duce anyhow, with the unexpected result that Italy redoubled her threats and Britain agreed to "The Deal"-only to repudiate it afterward and leave Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece bitterly complaining to Geneva correspondents this week that they...
...watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...
...confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith in this people's rights-a day of strong, inflexible faith in the destiny of the Fatherland...
...accepting the terms, Italians were told, the next British move would have been made by Captain Anthony Eden at Geneva to have the League of Nations reject the terms as morally odious and commence bargaining Italy down. In Italian eyes this week, war with England became increasingly probable as Benito Mussolini suddenly appeared tired, grave and grim in contrast to his high spirits and buoyant good humor up to the very hour last week before Sir Samuel Hoare resigned. In Italian opinion the last and most outrageous straw was the appointment this week of "Tony" Eden as British Foreign Secretary...
...presented at Geneva by the British Minister for League of Nations Affairs, Anthony Eden. It was formally delivered to the Italian Government and to the Ethiopian Government by the chiefs of the French and British diplomatic missions, together with urgent advice that it be accepted by Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. It was published as a White Paper with the imprimatur of King George. Was this treachery to voters who believed His Majesty's Government had pledged themselves to act otherwise...