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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endorsements from candidates in exchange for votes. First step was to send letters to every member of Congress asking: "Can we rely upon your help to pass a bill embodying the Townsend Plan at the coining session? Yes. . . . No. ... In the issue of The National Townsend Weekly of Dec. 30 we will publish either your answer to this questionnaire or that you failed to answer. Please be assured that we desire only to correctly inform our followers of your attitude...
This was understood by Italians as a reference to the Chamber session with every Deputy in uniform at which Premier Mussolini reacted to original British blandishments which preceded The Deal (TIME, Dec. 16), thus: "The Italian people listen to words but base their judgment upon acts!" After the acts of the British in first holding out and then withdrawing favorable terms, the Fascist Press printed last week, and most Italians believed, that the whole maneuver had been an "Eden Trap." If Italy had walked into it by accepting the terms, Italians were told, the next British move would have been...
...Hoare-Laval Deal to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia, mainly at the expense of Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months...
Deal No. 1, not venturing to place the whole Empire under non-Ethiopian supervision, envisioned the granting to Italy of preponderant influence over somewhat less than the southern half of the country (TIME, Dec. 23). Deal No. 2 was drafted by the Emperor on the advice of his trusted Yankee friend, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson. It resembles Deal No. i in so many vital respects as to suggest that Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare were not indulging in hypocrisy when they voiced confidence that Deal No. i was acceptable at least as a basis for negotiation to Italy...
...election was won. Shortly afterward "The Deal" to make peace by dismembering Ethiopia was agreed to in Paris by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 16). It was approved by the entire Baldwin Cabinet. It was officially 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...