Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reluctant but extraordinary tributes were paid last week by Paris' most blasé correspondents to Premier Pierre Laval, the shrewd, earthy "Honest Broker" of the negotiations to make peace at Ethiopia's expense. Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's James M. Minifie: "By his policy of obstructing the League's attempts to bring the aggressor nation to its knees, Premier Pierre Laval has gained more personal popularity in France than he has enjoyed for a long time. . . . The average man does not want to risk a fight. France is the average man, and Laval reflects...
...During the past month especially his prestidigitation has been almost stupendous. Italy and Ethiopia, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, the League of Nations, France's finances, her patriotic leagues- he has been keeping all the balls...
This week Aristocrats Eden and Hoare, who were vulgarly believed last week to head factions in His Majesty's Government respectively opposed to and favoring peace by dismemberment of Ethiopia, will cooperate shoulder to shoulder with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in an historic airing in the House of Commons of the international stench...
Having got the Premiers of France and Britain bogged in a deal to dismember Ethiopia, Premier Benito Mussolini blithely attempted last week to bog the Pope in a 20,000,000-mark deal on German Peter's Pence...
Buttering Chancellor Hitler judiciously last week, Premier Mussolini's personal newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia brandished in everybody's face the very notion over which most persons of Peace & Goodwill were wringing their hands, namely, that if Italy gets Ethiopia, then Germany will eventually get back the colonies seized from her during the War by the Allies. Benito Mussolini, lumping Japan, Germany and Italy together as "unsatisfied peoples," declared that their needs constitute a problem which the League of Nations is unable to overcome and that "cannot be overcome without Italy...