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Benito Mussolini read: "The United Kingdom and French Governments will use their influence at Addis Ababa and Geneva to the end that the formation in Southern Ethiopia of a zone of economic expansion and settlement reserved to Italy should be accepted by His Majesty the Emperor and approved by the League of Nations...
...trap all ready for Emperor Haile Selassie waited to be sprung in case he should officially reject The Deal. It might then be eloquently said by Orator Laval that since Ethiopia had flouted and rejected "a peaceful solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially...
Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...
Chairman of the League Council today is Dr. Eduard Benes, now being actively groomed for election as President of Czechoslovakia, famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." When Dr. Benes received last week the Emperor's demand that the Assembly be convened "immediately" it was second nature to him to have Secretary General Joseph Avenol cable back immediately to Addis Ababa that the League Council, generally dominated by the Great Powers, could scarcely be expected to convene the Assembly before itself deliberating so important a question. This maneuver effectively put the League of Nations into a dead stall...
Less ecclesiastic Ethiopian leaders in Addis Ababa shouted that any acceptance of The Deal would cost the Emperor...