Word: ethiopia
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Useless Sympathy, With such views current in the House of Commons, the future course of His Majesty's Government regarding Ethiopia seemed certain to take its bearings from basic factors which have not changed in the slightest because of the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare. These factors he ably set forth...
...Hoare-Laval Deal to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia, mainly at the expense of Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months...
...have been terrified," cried Sir Samuel, "at the thought we might lead Ethiopia to think the League could do more than it can, and that finally we should find a terrible moment of disillusionment in which Ethiopia might be altogether destroyed as an independent State...
...were Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, was the one logical move in a British fortnight of illogic. In the popular mind "Eden" stands for going whole hog against Italy, but in the House of Commons he has said that The Deal or any other arrangement acceptable to Italy, Ethiopia and the League would not be opposed by Britons. This stand by popular young Captain Eden promised well for a peaceful solution, except that the personal antipathy between Eden and Mussolini and the wild anti-Eden rage to which Italians have been worked up, made his appointment the most inflammatory...
Finally His Majesty announced himself willing to accept supervision of the entire Empire of Ethiopia under League of Nations' auspices. But Haile Selassie "would not grant Italy a preponderance of strength or influence...