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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtually on a war footing by Jan. 20-the day the League of Nations meets to deliberate the Italo-Ethiopian question further. Then 92 French warships and 156 British will invest the Mediterranean. Obliging M. Laval thus offered his countrymen their choice of war, and in effect dared the Chamber and Senate to say whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students of the Paris Law Faculty demonstrated in behalf of Italy and against Ethiopia's French International Law Professor Gaston Jeze (TIME, Aug. 12 & Sept. 16), with...
James Ramsay MacDonald advised King George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...
France also thought of the Lusitania. The Commission on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies sent a message of sympathy to the Swedish Ambassador that mentioned specifically "the unforgettable precedent of the Lusitania...
...Majesty should have such objects seemed to infuriate Mme Tabouis and Leaguophiles generally. As devoted antiFascists they are now against any peaceful solution which is not against Fascism. Last week they opened a whispering campaign to the effect that only the corruption of the tellers of the French Chamber of Deputies accounts for the recent majorities received by Premier Pierre Laval. Without a scrap of proof, they rumored that the majority of 20 won by the Laval Cabinet after the Premier's defense of his efforts to make peace at Ethiopia's expense would have been a majority...
...Eden's task will be to steer a course through obstacles heaped in apparently inextricable confusion. Premier Laval's clever move in leaving the final [French] decision on the oil embargo to the Chamber of Deputies makes London doubtful of the possibility of proceeding in that direction at all because the French Premier coupled this concession with the notice that there would be a need for simultaneously declaring mobilization of several classes of reservists. No French Deputy in his senses, with an election impending, can vote for putting thousands of electors into uniform...