Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's excitement at the State Department, and the eagerness of Secretary Hull to feel that everything had been finally settled, sprang naturally from the embarrassment of Peace Lovers when it was at first thought that British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden would find himself reeking with the odor of oil when he rose in Geneva to carry the Italy-Ethiopia crisis onto a high moral plane. The fact that Promoter Rickett is British and at first said that part of his financial backing was British had made young Mr. Eden look out of character...
Wily Greek. League of Nations activity began to stir when British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden motored from Geneva over to Aix-les-Bains in France for dinner with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. About 2 a. m. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Dictator Mussolini's Chief Delegate to the League, also arrived at Aix-les-Bains and went to bed. At 9:30 next morning the hard, astute Fascist Baron breakfasted with comfortable, pipe-sucking Stanley Baldwin and they conferred for an hour before the minister wound up his holiday water-cure and returned to London...
...Atrocious Practices." Next in Geneva the Italian case against Ethiopia was opened before the Council by Baron Pompeo Aloisi with a harsh, heavily documented address, while Italian aides passed around among the statesmen pictures taken in Ethiopia. As Captain Anthony Eden and his entourage fingered them, a Briton snorted, "The most revolting exhibit ever produced!" Wrinkling his French nose, Premier Laval remarked, "Nice, aren't they...
...delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next the Briton, last the Frenchman...
Benito for Business. The fireworks being over, the League Council, as it always does, appointed a commission. Chairmanned by Salvador de Madariaga, oldtime Spanish idealist and Leaguophile, the Commissioners were Premier Laval, Captain Eden, Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Rushtu Aras. With a show of bravado Fascist Aloisi said that "Italy reserves absolute freedom of action!" But Geneva was heavy with rumors that Dictator Mussolini had privately intimated that he was now ready to do business with the Peacemen, if they can and will do business...