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...demand of Ethiopia, the League Council last week called Italy to the mat. Ethiopia was represented by Professor Gaston Jeze of the Paris Sorbonne. To smash him Dictator Benito Mussolini sent to Geneva the hard-bitten Italian naval officer who, during the War, smashed Imperial Austria's network of spies after they had succeeded in blowing up two Italian battleships...
...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...
...Were merely bored as Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare rambled into an unconsidered speech on Ethiopia which infuriated Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and made impossible any achievement at Geneva last week by British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a fat little fortune, they would approve if in marrying off an only daughter he dowered her with 20% of it in tax-exempt bonds. Such was the ratio observed last week by shrewd, earthy, peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval when, like equally plebeian Premier Benito Mussolini, he prepared to marry off his José to a count...
Last week scrawny St. Gandhi, some-what in eclipse since he failed to win Dominion Status for India, thrilled 350,000,000 Indians anew by announcing at Calcutta, "India cannot ignore Benito Mussolini's threat against the dark-skinned people. Although India is under British rule, she is a member of the League of Nations, and fully entitled to assist against another nation, in a noncombatant...