Word: covenanter
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League Trap? Squire Baldwin's diplomats at the Foreign Office and on Britain's delegation at Geneva repeated daily last week that His Majesty's Government were not acting "against" Italy but "for" the League covenant. They firmly deprecated all suggestions that Britain was bent on curbing Italy to protect...
This jibe sorely vexed the League Committee of Five which meanwhile had received Ethiopia's guarded acceptance of their scheme "as a basis for discussion." Italy's scheme, the Committee hotly reported to the League Council, is "unacceptable and not susceptible of discussion within the framework of the League Covenant...
The actual words of M. Laval were a dexterous triple flirtation with 1) French pro-League sentiment, 2) the British Government and 3) Benito Mussolini. First he safely trumpeted: "The doctrine of collective security . . . remains and will remain the doctrine of France! The [League] Covenant endures as our international law...
"Sum Total Forces!" At Rome the Cabinet in which Benito Mussolini holds eight portfolios met in frowning Palazzo Viminale and a communiqué was issued which was in fact the Dictator's answer to Geneva. "The Hoare and Laval speeches," declared Premier Mussolini's communiqué, "could not be different from what...
Thus the League Council, which let Japan conquer Manchuria from China and failed to punish Germany for breaking the Treaty of Versailles on which the League Covenant itself is based, is asked by Italy this week: Why get excited about Ethiopia ?