Word: ethiopia
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...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...
...become a ''horizontal issue," not so much dividing the nations of Europe as internationally splitting social layers. Broadly speaking, the upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means of Sanctions and then civilizing Ethiopia in a community spirit...
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...