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...accept his reforms Franklin Roosevelt, two-time Man of the Year, could not justly hope to repeat. In the Old World in 1935, for the first time since Versailles, a group of potent statesmen exercised concerted influence over other nations than their own. . . . . . . Prime undisputed rankings were those of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie as Underdog of the Year, and of Italy's Dictator Benito ("Just-A-Man") Mussolini as Aggressor of the Year. The other leading characters in the puzzling exhibition included the youthful Front for Idealism, Great Britain's Captain Anthony Eden; his more practical...
...Secretary "Flying Sam" Hoare left for Paris by train & boat instead of plane. Ninety minutes after his arrival Sir Samuel was closeted with Premier Pierre Laval and the permanent experts who make British and French foreign policy, Sir Robert Vansittart and M. Alexis Leger, plus their sub-experts on Ethiopia, Mr. Maurice Peterson and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. The tension and excitement were terrific. Upon the table lay in draft form on crisp sheets "The Deal...
...recent British General Election was fought and won on a plane of loftily denying the simultaneous diplomatic work which went steadily forward to make The Deal for peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week 24 days had passed since Britons voted. The Deal, involving dismemberment of Ethiopia to the extent of Italy's securing approximately half of Haile Selassie's Empire, was briskly approved in Paris last week by Sir Samuel Hoare who had just finished announcing in the House of Commons that to be "acceptable" any terms of peace must satisfy Italy, the League...
...Affairs and the President of the Council of Ministers of France. There was nothing unusual in this. Mr. Baldwin often refuses to use the telephone. Instinct and experience warned him that he would be better able to make up his mind as to the justice and wisdom of dismembering Ethiopia after he had read and heard the first reactions of news-organs and British political henchmen to the startling events in Paris-startling to millions who balloted under the distinct impression that His Majesty's Government intended to preserve, protect and defend through the League of Nations the territorial...
From the March of Time newsreel about Palestine, the Board last month cut all scenes showing German Nazi persecution of Jews. The official explanation was that it had all happened some time before and it was unnecessary to remind people of it. From the March of Time newsreel about Ethiopia, the Board cut all evidences of British armed force, including naval guns, marching men and officers toasting the King. From the newsreel about France's Fascist organization, the Croix de Feu, it cut all indications that the late Alexandre Stavisky was protected by grafting high officials and that...