Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Editor Mussolini opened up full blast to boom his aggressive designs against Ethiopia and blast Great Britain for opposing them at Geneva in the person of that sleek Etonian Peaceman, Captain Anthony Eden (TIME, June...
Baron Aloisi went back to the table with small appetite for the roast. Doing his best, Capt. Eden arranged to keep the League Council in session on the Abyssinian question for a week if necessary. Meanwhile Pierre Laval got a call from headquarters: Things were going very badly at home. Crowds were nervous. Everything pointed to the fall of the Flandin Cabinet when parliament reopened early this week. The Foreign Minister had better hurry home. The last train for Paris left at 10:45 p.m. What time was it now? Nearly 9 o'clock. Mon Dieu...
Shortly after 9 o'clock the telephone rang again. This time it was Signer Mussolini calling. Capt. Eden spilled his coffee. Il Duce had thought of a compromise. He would agree to arbitrate the Abyssinian question-in principle-if Britain and France would let him continue to send troops to Africa. Italy was perfectly agreeable to Abyssinia's two chosen arbitrators: Professor Albert de la Pradelle of France and Professor Pitman Benjamin Potter of Long Branch, N.J., onetime instructor in political science at Harvard and in history at Yale...
Before dinner M. Laval and Capt. Eden had called on Abyssinia's inky-black Delegate, Pecla Hawariate, at his rooms in the Hotel Des Bergues, had told him what they were doing for his little country and advised him that the least he could do, if war could be averted, was to grant important commercial concessions in Ethiopia to Italy...
...King in office hours is a portentous political thing in England. Last week nearly every member of the National Cabinet trooped through the gates of Buckingham Palace to talk to the heavy-eyed old man. First it was MacDonald and his Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon; then Baldwin. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, also called. Later Scot MacDonald called again, then significantly turned his back on an emergency Cabinet meeting, went off to Scotland, leaving Baldwin to announce Britain's bellicose new air program (see col. 1). Finally Ramsay MacDonald was back again at the palace gates and everybody...