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...Government must keep backstairs dealing with Dictator Mussolini on the back stairs until after Nov. 14. Mr. Lloyd George got no satisfaction last week. He taxed Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to reveal the contents of the secret communication which passed between him and II Duce through Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador in Rome (TIME, Oct. 28), and spoke of it as "the famous letter...
...aside from the cares of war (see p. 14), the Dictator busied himself daily grappling with the awful risks he runs by steering a Victorian course in 1935. At his very elbow last week was the League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno...
Mussolini's Sin No. 2 in the present crisis, his use of war as an instrument of national policy, similarly depends upon the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928. From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze...
...Wise & Faithful." Sir Eric, as he and the Dictator talked, received an impact so powerful that next day New York Timesman Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled from London: "Last night the most urgent kind of warning reached the British Government from wise, faithful Ambassador Drummond to the effect that Mussolini was convinced Britain intended to make war upon him and therefore had poured new troops into Libya"-i.e. opposite the British position in Egypt...
...this vision of loveliness. What was she doing here? Was she a part of the diabolical plot against Drummond or had she too been caught in this hideous trap? What was this mysterious engine of death? My heart stood still!" Next week, "East Lynn...